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Becoming Adventure: South Korea Travel Tips

Thu, 12/23/2010 - 15:27 — jeff_martinez
The end of my holiday is coming! Next week I will start working on new videos about China!

South Korea is a great place to travel to! It may not be the first place on your list to go, but you will not regret a trip there. It offers a pretty unique and rewarding experience. It is best to get out and explore Korea. If you are just starting to travel and are looking somewhere you can explore and travel with no plan Korea is a good place to start! It is super safe and the people are really friendly. Also the food is great, I have never had any stomach problems. There are so many great cultural sites to check out. Here are some helpful sites for travel in Korea: Korean Tourism site: http://english.visitkorea.or.kr/enu/index.kto More Korea info: http://www.koreabrand.net/ Transportation: Trains: www.korail.com Buses: http://www.kobus.co.kr/web/eng/index.jsp Accommodations: www.korea.net/uesful_info/reservation/reservation_hotel.asp

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The Battle of Tsushima

Thu, 11/11/2010 - 12:32 — busanmike
Korean Mother went on a two day trip to the Japanese island of Tsushima – which is called Daemado in Korea. You shouldn't read too much into the different naming – it doesn't necessarily make it another Dokdo/Takeshima/Liancourt Rocks situation.
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Rural Korea on the Jirisan Trail

Tue, 11/02/2010 - 23:19 — Nomad Within
Click to view slideshow.

This article has gotten quite a few downloads so I’ve decided to write a post about it here. The Jirisan Trail in this article is not the same trail that runs up Jirisan Mtn. It is a newer trail that runs through the villages around the national park.

You can read the online version of this article I wrote and photographed for the NOV 2009 issue of 10 Magazine, or take a look at the tear sheets and PDF version below.

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Horror Hospital

Fri, 10/15/2010 - 10:28 — busanmike
Recently I wrote about some of the problems my wife and I had experienced with the maternity hospital we were in, but things were going to turn out to be worse for other people in what seemed to me like a perfect storm of Korean cultural issues.
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Been to Daegu? Take a survey and win prizes

Tue, 08/17/2010 - 21:24 — chrisinsouthkorea

Author's note: I welcome opportunities for my wonderful readers to win prizes - this comes from a trusted friend and university professor here in Korea. He writes:

One of my colleagues is working with Daegu city on a survey for foreign visitors. Respondents are eligible for prizes, including a free night and dinner at the Daegu Novotel. Thanks for any help you can give, and here is the info:
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Destination: Korea World Travel Fair (2010)

Tue, 06/08/2010 - 12:34 — chrisinsouthkorea
Feast your eyes on dozens of countries and every part of South Korea - the Korea World Travel Fair is a chance to learn more about traveling Korea and the world than, well, traveling Korea and the world. An overwhelming variety of information and stuff to see is pretty standard for a 'international' or 'world' festival - yet this one actually had an extensive international presence.

Held in one of the larger exhibition halls at COEX from June 3rd - 6th, at least a hundred different booths hailed from all corners of South Korea and the world. Roughly split into halves, the Korean half and the 'rest-of-the-world' half got roughly the same amount of traffic. The booths along the hall's walls served media, publications, and more than a few sales booths quite nicely.
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The Sandman

Mon, 06/07/2010 - 19:26 — busanmike
When I discovered that finance ministers and central bankers from the G-20 were meeting in Busan I felt like I wanted to go and stand outside the hotel to watch because suddenly, as a financial trader, my world was coming to me - here in the relative backwater that is Korea's second city, and I wondered if I would ever again be in the presence of so much collective inaction. But as events transpired, by the time they reached Busan, all I wanted to do was catch a glimpse of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer and shout “Stop letting President Obama kick sand in our faces, Mr.
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10 Magazine video contest - time to vote for your favorites

Wed, 06/02/2010 - 13:17 — chrisinsouthkorea
The 10 Magazine Video Contest has begun - some are quite professionally done, while others are... a little more amateurish. From silly and corny to quiet and beautiful, there's a wide range of ways to promote Korean tourism. Go here to vote for up to three of your favorites, and vote a second time for your favorite of the three on the page. Voting is open to anyone across the world with an internet connection, and it's the readers who decide the final 10.
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The Choir

Mon, 05/17/2010 - 20:39 — busanmike
The day after the French Comedy I found myself at the Geumjeong Cultural Center ('금정문화회관') in Busan - I believe that around half the districts in the city have their own cultural centre - for a performance by the Busan Metropolitan City Chorus.

Unlike the French Comedy, which had cost 22,500 won per ticket (about £13/$20), tickets to see the Busan Chorus were a mere 1,000 won (59 pence/88 cents) - a special promotion as part of the event's proximity to Children's Day on May 5th and Parents' Day on May 8th. This meant that the tickets only cost us 10 won more than the price of the forty-five minute subway journey to get there.
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Comédie!

Wed, 05/05/2010 - 21:20 — busanmike
Another weekend another festival. This time it was the Busan International Performing Arts Festival, or 'BIPAF'. Invariably all festivals in Busan are inexplicably 'International', but this one genuinely warrants the name in that it involved productions from France, Italy, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, as well as Korea. We travelled to the 'Busan Cultural Center' in Daeyeondong, Namgu, to see a performance unambiguously titled 'Comedy' by the - according to the announcer beforehand - 'world famous' Nasser Martin-Gousset Company otherwise known as 'La Maison'. I can't speak to the veracity of this claim, but Nasser Martin Gousset does at least have a page on the French version of Wikipedia.
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Surviving Picasso

Mon, 04/19/2010 - 22:02 — busanmike
"Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth." - Pablo Picasso
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The Lost Words

Mon, 04/12/2010 - 17:37 — busanmike
In June 1950 the North Korean Army crossed the 38th parallel, invading the Republic of South Korea. By September, most of the Republic had fallen, with only the area around the city of Busan, or Pusan as it was then known in English, remaining under the control of anti-Communist forces. As the Republic collapsed, half a million refugees fled south to the coastal city, swelling the population to around 1.4 million. The Battle of Pusan Perimeter raged, and conditions within the titular city were equally chaotic.
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Fresh Air

Wed, 03/24/2010 - 13:36 — busanmike
After our pottery class in Haeundae on Sunday, we went to Songjeong Beach. It wasn't far, which surprised me. I realise in retrospect that every time we've been there before it was by car, and since separate trips to Haeundae and Songjeong have never connected, I'd never made the geographical connection between the two. This tells me I'm still orientating myself when it comes to getting around Busan.
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Up Pompeii

Mon, 03/01/2010 - 18:15 — busanmike
A large crowd gathered around a sixty-foot bonfire on a waterlogged beach, tents on the ground nearby, kites in the air, Korea's famous health and safety culture. What could possibly go wrong?
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Last Sunset

Fri, 01/01/2010 - 19:24 — busanmike
Cold. That will be my overriding memory of the 2010 Busan New Year Festival.
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