Korea · coast
The city exhales. You can too.
You step off the KTX and the air has a rumor of the sea in it. Busan is Seoul’s opposite number: still a city, suddenly a shoreline. Eat something from a market you cannot name yet.
Arrival energy
Do not schedule a cliff, a temple, and a night market on the same afternoon you sat on a train. Walk to water. Buy something fried. Let the voltage drain.
Gamcheon’s colors are fun. The hills are real. Go if you like stairs as a personality test.
A two-day sketch
- Market + coast the first evening.
- One hill or one temple the next morning — not a greatest-hits mash.
- Sleep near a metro that hits both food and water without a taxi novel.
Back inland: Seoul. Out to sea: Jeju only with days to spare. Coming from Kyushu or leaving toward Fukuoka: Japan–Korea corridor.