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Travel Blogs from Busan, Korea Rep.
Halloween Festivities
... and a little disturbing all at once! We had a great time celebrating one of the best holidays with I think, every Expat living in Busan. Kyungsung University Area was packed with crazy foreigners all dressed up to the T! Ahh how I love ...
Update #9 -- South Korea
... only way that you can visit there is through an organized tour. The DMZ it the joint security area that separates North and South Korea. When the Korean War ended there was never a peace treaty, only an armistice was signed. So the DMZ is the area that ...
Busan
... !" Honestly, that is what they told me! Ha! Anyway, we hopped on the KTX for a three hour ride to Busan for the long weekend. Immediately, the contrast between Busan and Seoul is remarkably clear. Most notably, the air is so much cleaner in ...
Pusan, Busan
-Left Jeju early on Wednesday morning, sad goodbyes! -Took a flight to Busan, flight attendants let us try on silly hats for pictures, and did a magic show for us. -Bus into the city, carried our VERY heavy backpacks and extra bags for what seemed like ...
Of course it's a lesson - it's a cultural exchange
... kids! And some things it would seem, are not so different. Their final exercise was to write a diary of a Christmas day in Korea. Without prompting, one group got my Christmas day spot on: '7:00am sleep 8:00am sleep 9:00am ...
Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Sleet
... blizzards hitting Seoul, people going base over ape, cars skidding willy nilly, and sneer "you lucky bastards". The first Busan snow came in January, during Winter Camp. I foolishly made the mistake of whispering to the children, "look out ...
Staycation Day 6 - And relax....
... escape that. Now here's the weird part...The weather is still amazing, and yet Haundae beach is pretty much deserted! Korea has an official beach season - the exact date is decided on by the authorities. They decide when beach season starts, ...
Gwangalli Bridge 10K
... there was no pedestrian walkway. Which meant the only way over it was by car, which we dont have, or to do the Busan Ocean Bridge 10K! Bryan, Leah, and I had already been running a good bit, so we set the goal mileage and signed ourselves up! ...
The Story...
... 45 minutes away still, or so thinks his friend in the background, after I describe my surroundings. I believed it. Busan is easily the size, land wise, and probably bigger, actually, to the entire Dallas/Ft. Worth metroplex AND surrounding ...
A Christening and Face Rollers....
... Gracie Ingrid Julia Bella Nicole :) They're so cute. They taught me a few other key facts about teenage girls in South Korea today... You must be either a fan of "Big Bang" OR TVXQ.... These are both boy bands, and very popular ...
Busan: Confusion, Conversion and Consternation
... with the water. And who knew that’s what it would take to make me feel a little better being in Busan. Not Korean, not culturally significant, but a pretty impressive engineering regardless. The Lotte building also has a free observatory ...
at home
Hi, I just created this travel blog......now I'm at home in Busan, beginning to prepare for my trip, saying farewell to friends, etc. Next Wednesday I leave Busan for my two-week winter camp in Jeollanam-do. ...
My New Favourite Game
Talking to a friend who has been in Korea for a year before me, she had said that Winter arrives in a most startling way. It happens overnight, like a switch being flicked. One minute, you're basking in a balmy Indian Summer-come Autumn, all ...
Korea-Why am I here?
... I always ask myself is that is this something that I truly want to do or is it because I feel obligated to do ? Well Coming to Korea was the first decision that I made with the notion of self first in mind. It wasn't an easy process but I made it. Even ...
Busy Days
Just spent sometime enjoying the snippets of your lives, love it.!! Busan, second time around [because we could not go to Japan] was good we were able to negotiate our way around to get the few things we needed,venturing into the vast underground ...
Max Relax in the South
... as it was stonking hot when I was there, up in the mid 30s, and after all my moving I was getting a bit tired. Also in Busan there just happened to be biggest and busiest beach in the country, Haeundae, which, couldn've quite easily been confused for ...
Staycation Day 4 - RubaDubDub 300 Koreans in a Tub
... women have a secret: they are normal too! Hooray! Now I feel much less intimidated when walking about Korea, because I know their secret. There were three other western girls at Hurshimchung at the same time as me. ...
Busan
... Monday morning we met Rev. Kyong about 9:30. He took us to the site of the APEC conference in 2005 which Busan has turned into a tourist destination. It was a beautiful building situated on the bay with beautiful views of the bridge and ...
Frick and Frack take on Busan
... for the first time. The next day we woke up to nasty weather and constant rain…which was obviously not in the itinerary. Busan is such a beautiful city, most of the activities I had for them were all outside. So, I regrouped and sent them out for ...
South Korea
So Korea
Yesterday was at day at sea, so I spent the day relaxing. I attended a lecture about touring the port of Busan, South Korea and Nagasaki, Japan. We arranged a shore visit in Nagasaki, so I was really interested in learning about Busan. It seemed like the ...
Going Back
It turns out that my flight was in the morning, which completely ruined my plan to take a last look around Korea. At 4:00 a.m., my family and I set out to the airport. After waiting in the lounge area, we boarded the plane. Now, I'm ...
A new look at Birthday Party...
... it would have to be fool-proof for the big day! Little did I know that the party was going to fall on the same day as Korea's second World Cup match, and the twins were going to bring masks of the Korea soccer team for our whole class. The sight of their ...
Weekend #2
... next time! Saturday night we went out to dinner with the 4 other foreign teachers. Ashely was performing in a sketch comedy show "Busan Night Live" and we all went together to watch. There is an Indian restaurant above where the show was being held that ...
Open Air markets...
Today was a fun day... I got to hang out at the open air market and a seafood market. As for the open air markets, I've never seen so many VL, Gucci, Burberry, and Coaches in my life. I mean high quality knock off. I wish I had room in ...