Busan, part 1

High speed KTX train to Busan! From one end of the country to the other in 2.5 hours! It's a smooth ride, convenient, inexpensive, and some great scenery along the way. I highly recommend it!

Busan is really neat. At 4 million people, it’s the 2^nd largest city in S.Korea, but it doesn’t seem big or crowded. Maybe because I’m comparing it to Seoul (population 10 million). The look and feel of Busan is urban yet cozy. It’s hilly like San Francisco, and has a mild climate. 

Busan, being a port city, is famous for its seafood, and so … Seafood hotpot. Prawns, squid, crayfish, giant clams, crab, vegetables, and this bizarre chewy thing in a spiral shell. Omg.

Busan has this gigantic outdoor fish market that seems to go on and on. It was really impressive.

They even sold whale meat:

But what was even more impressive than the fish market was the awesome variety of visors the female workers wore. As the fish market had no end in sight, the visor variety was even more mind-boggling.

I don't know how Visor Nation began, but I do know how it advances. They indoctrinate their minions early:

A few more Busan notes to come ^^