Analogue Alley Forty Steps in Jung-gu, Busan_아날로그 골목, 부산중구 40계단 이야기
A Story of Special Steps
Disappearing slowly, but with unforgettable memories...
This street still preserves the same appearance of decades ago.
It even displays the tragedy of wartime.
Sin Chun-sik: Before Korea was developed during the 1960s, we had to go through many difficult times such as the Korean War in 1950. They were really tough times, truly!
Kim Jong-gil: It was hard. The city was crowded with countless refugees... and we were all facing difficult situations.
Here is a building to commemorate the harsh times.
Forty Steps Cultural Center
Yi Mi-yeon : The Forty Steps Cultural Tourism Theme Street was established to display numerous artifacts used decades ago and to exemplify what it looked like during the Korean War.
The items on display must have been very common back in those days, but they've become unfamiliar now.
Kids and youngsters might think they are quite interesting.
Do you wonder where it is?
It's just across the street from Busan Station, in Jungang-dong, Jung-gu, Busan.
It is said that refugees used to sit here on the steps to ease their tired souls while drinking a bowl of makgeolli.
The Forty Steps connects two regions of Busan, Dongwang-dong and Jungang-dong. During wartime, many people used the steps to go to work, for example, to nearby harbors and markets. So to speak, the steps represented the hard life of those people.
Sometimes, a song on the steps made them relaxed for a while.
Nothing to wear... Nothing to eat... Everything was just insufficient.
However, there was surely one thing left.
Song Gang-hui: When a rice puff man appeared in an alley carrying popped rice or fried rice crackers, we had to try hard to make him give us some of them. It was sad and we were still hungry. But we didn't lose hope.
The hope.
The world changed a lot, but some things never change.
Sitting here, I sing a song about that which doesn't change.
We always carry hope in our minds.
Once valuable memories are now disappearing slowly.
However, we can find it again at this place.
BUSAN - 40 STEPS CULTURE & TOURISM THEME STREET
Don't stop after climbing up the stairway! Continue on and explore the neighborhood for more beautiful street art ????✨
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Haeundae Area
*Amazing Night life in Haeundae.
*Haeundae Beach - most famous and beautiful beaches. Happening during summer.
*Haedong Yonggung Temple is a Buddhist temple in Gijang-gun
*Dongbaekseom is an island of Busan, South Korea. It is located on the west end of the *Haeundae Beach
*Nurimaru Apec House
Moontan Road – Walk along the coast on the Railway track.
Cheongsapo Seafood Town
Nampo-dong Area
*Jagalchi Market - World famous market for fresh fish & seafood. It's pretty clean and you can also have your seafood cooked the traditional Korean way right on the spot Or you can cook it yourself at your Airbnb. Must try to Octopus, something difference and if you are adventure enough to try. At night there is seafood auction in the market.
*Busan Tower & Yongdusan Park is a park located in Jung-gu. Yongdu means “dragon’s head” and “san” means “mountain”.
*Gamcheon Culture Village – colorful houses, painted murals, shops & cafes. if you are taking the public bus, please be prepared to climb up a small hill to reach the location
*Yeongdodaegyo A.K.A. Yeongdodari is a bascule bridge in Yeongdo
*40-step Culture & Tourism Theme Street –
*Bosu Book Street is the book street in Bosu-dong,
*Lotte Mall
Choryang Dong Area – Dong Gu Tour
*Choryang Ibagu-gil Nice to walk around and is connected to Jungang Park.
*Jungang park/ Democracy Park - Nice to walk around and short hike.
*Dwaeji Gukbap Street where a lot of Dwaeji Gukbap restaurant.
*Donggu Hiking Trail – Mt Eomgyang
Gwangan 2-dong Area
*Gwangalli Beach – Amazing night view and less crowded compare to Haeundae Beach.
*Shinsegae Centum City Department Store – Walk along the river and catch the night view.
*Busan Cinema Center
Amnam Dong Area
*Songdo Beach is a man-made beach in Busan.
*Songdo Coastal Walk
*Gudeok Culture Park
*Amnam Park – Fishing , Cliff walk, Camping.
*Cheonmasan sculpture park- Catch the Amazing Sunset and amazing view from the mountain.
Yeongdo Area
*Taejongdae is a natural park of Busan, South Korea with magnificent cliffs facing the open sea on the southernmost tip of island of Yeongdo-gu
*Oryukdo Skywalk
*Bongnaesan Mountain
Dadae Dong Area
*Dadaepo Sunset Fountain of Dream
*Dadaepo Beach – Amazing Sunset but the ocean is kind dirty.
*Daejeo Ecological Park –April is best time to see canola flowers & Cherry blossom in this park.
Cheongnyong -Dong & Geumjeong-gu.Area
*Beomeosa is a head temple of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism
*Geumjeongsan is a mountain in the city of Busan in South Korea. It covers a large surface that extends into Dongnae-gu in the south, Buk-gu in the west, Geumjeong-gu in the east, and the city of Yangsan in the north.
*Gudeok Culture Park- Busan Aviation Wireless Communication station ( Awesome view )
*Hoedong Reservoir and Oryundae- The lake and mountain top provide stunning scenery that can be observed from the comfort of the Oryun-dae observatory deck
Food
- Dwaeji Gukbap is a pork-based soup and rice dish which is perfect for cold or rainy days
- Live Octopus
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23 Things to do in BUSAN, KOREA
Are you trying to figure out what to do in Busan, Korea? Well… you came to the right place! We got 23 things for you to do/see in Busan! Watch and decide which places you want to explore!
1) Port of Busan (Largest port in South Korea)
2) Yongdusan Park (You can see the Busan Tower from here)
3) Busan Tower (118m tower with an observatory deck)
4) Gamcheon Culture Village (Unique village with colourful homes and art)
5) Songdo Beach
6) Songdo Skywalk
7) Geobukseom (Turtle Island)
8) Taejongdae (Clifftop park with a seaside observatory, lighthouse and a great view of water views.)
9) Haeundae Beach
10) See Gwangandaegyo (Bridge spanning 7kms)
11) Haeundae Movie Road
12) Oryukdo Skywalk
13) See the Oryukdo Islands
14) Igidae Coastal Walkway
15) Gwangalli Beach
16) Shinsegae Centum City Department Store
17) Busan Cinema Center
18) Jangsan (Mountain that has an elevation of 634m)
19) Huinnyeoul (White-ford) Culture Village
20) Busan Sky Observatory
21) 40 steps Culture and Theme Street
22) Jalgalchi Market (World famous market for fresh fish and seafood. You can take it to go or eat at informal stalls.)
23) Busan Air Cruise
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Recommended place for sightseeing in Korea: Jeon-po Cafe Street
If you want to visit Busan, i definitely recommend to visit this place.
This street is near Seo-Meon (Center of Busan).
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Busan Museum of Movies
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Before and After: Developing the Best Courtyard Landscape in Korea | Wolmyeongdong
See how we developed the best courtyard landscape in all of Korea within one year! I combined three clips of how the landscape looked.
In the beginning of 2016, the Wolmyeongdong Recreation Center started carving the cliff. I took the first clip while standing on the path they made. At that time, one of the offices was in front of the mountain. You can see all of that in the first video.
A few months later, they completely torn down the office in front of the mountain. It looks a bit surreal. If you visited Wolmyeongdong after this, you would have never guessed there was an office originally! The only way you can tell is because the bronze Jesus statue was left intact.
However, a year later, they finished developing the courtyard landscape. The courtyard space itself didn't change much. Is was mainly the mountain that changed. If you look closely, there is a groove in the mountain that we turned into the waterfall.
For the bronze Jesus statue, we moved it into the sports field. You can find it in front of Prayer Hill at the base of the mountain. It is at the entrance of the steps going up the hill.
As for the office, everyone moved into the offices across from the old offices. The place we moved to was actually a souvenir store. But we moved the store into the Culture Center.
So even within one year, Wolmyeongdong has changed so much! If you want to see more of these types of videos, please let me know! I will try to include more before and after videos. It's kind of hard to get resources. I happened to have this one, so I put it together.
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Mass protests from the perspective of a non-Korean
외국인의 눈으로 한국의 천만명의 촛불시위를 보다
So the nationwide candlelight protests have been going on for several weekends now... and they are considered quite a different sight from the rallies of old.
They're peaceful demonstrations,... calmly calling for change.
But, what do the protests look like from a foreigner's perspective?
Here's our Shin Se-min.
Patrick Border is a retired American judge, who was stationed in Korea while serving in the U.S. armed forces as a young man.
He's visited Korea from his home state of Hawaii multiple times over the past couple decades.
But over the weekend, he saw an extraordinary scene right here in Gwanghwamun -- something unthinkable in the Korea he served over 40 years ago.
I was astounded by it, I've never seen that many people of a single mind in the same place at the same time in my whole life. and it was convivial ppl were very peaceful throughout the whole process, but they were also purposeful. And when they see the kind of behavior that has alleged that turned out to be true, then they're saying it's enough. and I respect that bcuz that's a public involvement in the affairs of the government. If we had more of that in the U.S., a lot of the stuff that we see going on would not be happening .but ppl are to complacent and we need to develop same enthusiasm that you have in Korea.
A huge contrast from what he'd first seen in the 1970s... in terms of the Korean people's level of expression.
What was amazing about it is when I got to Korea in 1975, we had nothing but restrictions. They told us not to talk about the government, not talk about the other side, or else you're subject to an arrest. So the people of Korea were powerless at the time, now I see a complete change after 40 years,... that the people of Korea know that they have the power to turn a president out of office for misbehavior. That's an astonishing turnaround. It's changed 180 degrees now.
Nearly 2-and-a-half million people gathered in central Seoul on the sixth straight Saturday of demonstrations,... peacefully demanding the President step down over her involvement in the ongoing scandal.
It's a bit hard to have that level of enthusiasm of interest in politics becaus a lot of young generations dont' have that much of interest before,... but considering the ongoing political scandal,... it's quite a contrast.
What I saw was the people of all ages, young people who were single the parents bringing their infant children trying to explain to them the importance they were doing and the old men come up to me and giving me high-five. Because they were appreciative of that somebody from another country would take the trouble to watch their process. It was enjoyable but behind it all, there is a sense of purpose in a sense of being on purpose, and not just being out here in hopes. The Korean ppl said the other night that they will not be denied. and I respect that but I hold it in awe.
Today, the people here in Gwanghwamun Plaza are carrying on as usual: some hurrying from one place to another,… others quietly taking in the iconic open space that stretches for multiple blocks in the city center.
But the people have vowed to come back to this very site again this Saturday.
Shin Se-min, Arirang News.
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Ahn Cheol-soo heads to key swing province of Chungcheong-do
안철수 후보, 격전지 충청 표심 잡겠다
Presidential candidate Ahn Cheol-soo has a history with Chungcheong-do Province that stretches back decades.
He was once a professor at KAIST, a research university in the city of Daejeon, and it's also here in the nation's central region that he launched his youth talk concert series that made him famous among Koreans in their 20s and early 30s.
Seven years later, Ahn is back as a presidential candidate - his first stop: Korea's mini administrative capital of Sejong City.
Of all the candidates, I'm the only one with a pledge for Sejong in the top ten campaign pledges. I vow to move the official administrative capital from Seoul to Sejong City if I'm elected president.
Highlighting work inefficiency because of the distance between the presidential office and the National Assembly in Seoul and many government ministries in Sejong, Ahn insisted it would be more reasonable to make Sejong City the sole center for Korea's administrative affairs.
Now more than ever, the country must make sure there's equal growth across different regions. The relocation to Sejong would also help decentrallizr political and economic power, which has been overwhelmingly concentrated in Seoul.
On his second stop, the medical doctor by training headed to the Osong Medical Innovation Foundation.
The state-of-the-art research center is focused on developing new medicine and medical equipment.
There, he stressed the value of integration and convergence across disciplines.
Of course, street campaigning was also on his itinerary; mingling with voters on a crowded street in Cheongju City.
Chungcheong-do has a long track-record of being a bellwether province with no strong tendency of voting for a conservative or a liberal party,.. making it fertile ground for moderate politicians like Ahn Cheol-soo.
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With the latest opinion surveys showing a widening gap between Ahn and frontrunner Moon Jae-in, the center-left People's Party nominee is going all out to win over hearts here* in the casting-vote inland Chungcheong-do Province.
Kim Jung-soo, Arirang News, Cheongju.
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Arirang Prime Ep260 Korean Independence Day 70th Anniversary Special Korean Diaspora's Dining
▶ From Primorsky Krai to Russia, and again to Central Asia Korean Russian diaspora′s 100 years
In September 1937, Stalin′s regime displaced 17,000 Korean Russians in Primorsky Krai to Central Asia. It took their freight train 50 days to travel 6,000 km to a barren wilderness, where they cultivated the land and planted the seeds from home.
Over the course of 80 years after that, Korean language, history, and people slowly faded from Korean Russians′ memories.
From Primorsky Krai to Russia, and again to Central Asia, Korean Russians of Uzbekistan lived their life in diaspora.
However, there was one part of life that they could not forget. Their food.
Their food culture has been passed down from generation to generation, and their dining table tells the stories of Korean Russians′ life and history.
▶A 3rd generation Korean Russian singer, Irina
Irina is a 3rd generation Korean Russian who is popular in the Korean Russian society for her traditional performances. However, on her dining table are Uzbek style salad and fried rice plov. Korean Russian food disappeared from her table a long time ago. To her, Korean Russian food symbolizes the forgotten food of her parents′ generation.
Irina decides to take a step back and visit her hometown to learn about Korean Russian food. She learns how to make baeoja, guksi, and doenjang, and in the process, comes to learn the history of Korean Russian food.
▶Baegoja and guksi - Hometown food that the body remembers
Korean Russian food has been disappearing from the dining tables of 3rd and 4th generation Korean Russians. Now, people only eat them on rare occasions such as family parties. Irina′s parents make baegoja to celebrate her long-awaited homecoming. Baegoja is a Korean Russian style dumpling with meat and vegetable filling.
Then, they boil noodles, pour in cold soy sauce broth, and top the noodles with meat, tomato, and cabbage to make a dish called guksi. It is the perfect summer dish for fighting off the 40°C heat.
A closer look into history of baegoja and guksi reveals stories of Korean Russians′ life and history of settlement in Central Asia.
▶Korean Russians′ ongoing diaspora
Korean Russians had to suddenly move from Primorsky Kry to Russia, and again to Central Asia. Their descendants, 3rd and 4th generation Korean Russians, are now leaving for Korea or neighboring countries to find work. Just when they thought they could settle down somewhere, they had to resume their life as a diaspora again.
Their homeland is Korea, language is Russian, and residence is Central Asia. Likewise, their Korean Russian food displays a blend of their culture, life, and identity that changed over generations.
Through their food, Korean Russians retell the story of their diaspora.
▶ 연해주에서 러시아로, 다시 중앙아시아로 떠돌아야 했던 100년의 역사, 고려인
1937년 9월, 연해주에 거주하던 고려인 17만명은 스탈린 정권에 의해 중앙아시아로 강제 이주를 당한다.화물열차에 실려 50여일간 6천㎞를 달린 끝에 도착한 중앙아시아.
이들은 척박한 땅을 개간하고 고향에서 가져온 씨앗을 뿌려 어렵게 땅을 개간했다.
그로부터 100여년, 말이 잊혀지고, 역사가 잊혀지
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Pres. Moon says ties with northern countries will fuel Korean economy
문 대통령, 한반도의 평화 통해 남.북.러 3각 협력 기반을 다질 것
Let's start with the South Korean president's efforts to breathe some life into the sluggish local economy.
President Moon Jae-in has identified northern countries, Russia in particular, as a trading partner that could be utilized more to fuel South Korea's continued economic growth.
Shin Se-min reports.
President Moon Jae-in said economic cooperation with northern countries will be the source of a new growth engine for Korea's economy,... and that both Seoul and Moscow should continue bolstering their cooperation through exchanges on multiple fronts.
In the southeastern city of Pohang on Thursday, at the inaugural edition of a forum on interregional cooperation,... President Moon shared his vision for both Korea and Russia as well as the Far East.
Through peace on the Korean Peninsula, the government will strengthen the basis for three-way cooperation between the two Koreas and Russia. Russia's Far East will be the point where the Peninsula is linked to Eurasia for distribution and energy.
The Korea-Russia Local Cooperation Forum was set up under the deal reached last year in Russia by Presidents Moon and Putin,... and was initially aimed at building ties between the two countries in the fields of economy, commerce, culture and education.
It brings together representatives from 17 regions in Korea and 9 from Russia's Far Eastern Federal District.
Its first edition was held at Korea's biggest steel production center,... where President Moon announced the Pohang Declaration, in which the delegates agreed to five points, including cooperation in cutting-edge technology and the energy sector.
The two sides have also agreed to set up a standing secretariat to facilitate cooperation and agreed to get more regional governments to join the forum.
This is part of President Moon's New Northern Policy, under which Seoul is seeking to step up economic cooperation with the vast Eurasian country in multiple fields like energy, shipbuilding and transportation... alongside the detente with North Korea.
The annual meeting is scheduled to be hosted alternately by the two sides,... with next year's session to be held in Vladivostok.
Shin Se-min, Arirang News.
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G-Star 2016 showcases gaming industry's future
국제게임전시회 지스타 2016 오늘 개막
Gaming enthusiasts around the world are gathering in Korea's southeastern port city of Busan for this year's G-Star Expo.
The expo highlights some of the latest developments in the gaming world.
Let's take a glimpse into some of the most dramatic developments the industry has to offer... along with a unique communal experience that comes with it.
Our Kim Jung-soo files this report from G-Star 2016.
The 12th G-Star Expo got underway at the Bexco convention center in Busan on Thursday, under the theme of Play to the Next Step, giving gamers and game developers an invaluable opportunity to meet in person and experience the present and future of the global gaming scene.
This is the eighth time we're having this expo in Busan. In line with our theme, we want people to recognize that the gaming industry has always pushed boundaries, from the PC gaming days to games that implement VR.
The event features roughly 650 companies from 35 countries and over 27-hundred booths.
Organizers expect more than 200-thousand people to come to the event, which goes on for four days.
But according to the organizing committee, this year's expo is not just a business gathering showcasing the latest gaming products.
Instead, organizers are promising more of a cultural and emotionally-charged event that celebrates the elements of human interaction and cooperation, which are often overshadowed by the sophisticated graphics and technology of the gaming industry.
In tune with the expo's philosophy, a major attraction is the integration of virtual reality technology into the latest games.
Just a year ago, participants reported leaving the Busan expo with vague impressions of what virtual reality is and what it can do.
But that wasn't the case this year, thanks to the participation of several major VR-tech companies.
It's amazing to meet so many people who share the same interests as I do. I checked out the VR corner myself and can't wait for future games that incorporate the technology.
The exhibits this year also signal an important departure from PC gaming, and reflect the public's growing interest in mobile and console gaming.
Consumers nowadays have so much to choose from, and we want to show the audience that mobile games match other devices in both entertainment value and accessibility.
G-Star 2016 continues until Sunday, promising participants an unforgettable sensory experience.
Kim Jung-soo, Arirang News. Busan.
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S. Korea's largest urban VR-theme park ‘Monster VR’ opens in Incheon
국내 최대 규모 가상현실 테마파크 '몬스터 VR' 개소
Virtual Reality has burst onto the scene in recent years with the world's biggest tech firms - like Samsung - releasing headsets for consumers to use in their own homes.
But VR has also created a whole new industry: urban theme parks.
And a massive one has opened up near Seoul,... in other words, you won't have to venture too far... for some out-of-this world adventures.
Lee Jeong-yeon has the story.
A whole world of virtual reality opened its doors to the public earlier this month.
Located in the Songdo district of Incheon, 'Monster VR' was put together by the Culture Ministry and its subsidiary Korea Creative Content Agency.
This is by far the biggest urban virtual reality theme park in Korea with 40 different VR content experiences. That's four times the average number of VR content in theme parks around the world.
There is something for everyone. Visitors can jump through time and space, ride a rollercoaster, bungee-jump in a rainforest, or even fight zombies, become a ninja, or swim through the sea in Guam.
There's a lot of variety. This is something we don't have an opportunity to see anywhere else. This is the whole experience. It makes your heart pump.
According to a survey by the Korea Creative Content Agency this year, only about 16-percent of the 2-thousand gamers surveyed had ever played a VR game, so there's still a long way to go for VR to become a part of people's daily lives.
Monster VR is essentially a platform to popularize VR. You have to travel far to get to traditional theme parks, but by making a VR theme park in the city, it becomes easy to access. More importantly, the content is easier and cheaper to change compared to traditional facilities.
According to market research company International Data Corp, the global market for augmented and virtual reality products and services is estimated to grow 19-fold over the next 4 years to more than 200 -billion US dollars.
In the midst of this market growth, 'Monster VR' is only the start of the Culture Ministry's plans to offer a first-hand experience of VR technology, with similar facilities being planned for other parts of Korea.
It is open every day, for anyone looking for a perfect get-away to exotic places, while staying in the city.
Lee Jeong-yeon, Arirang News. Incheon.
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Autumn in PNU and North Korea - Vlog in Korea # 9
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Here you can first see some footage of my University during autumn. Korea is so beautiful during this season, with all the pretty colours everywhere, especially my University!
After that I filmed my trip to the DMZ, and the Joint Security Area. It was organised by the Ambassy of Philippines, and a friend of mine invited us exchange student who wanted to go to join him there. We first went to Seoul, and then we met and took a bus to go for a daytrip to the DMZ.
It was free for us, and we were treated like special guests by the UN, we saw a little bit more than usual tourists, and we have the chance to be accompanied by really nice soldiers from the UN.
You can see how North Korea looks like: not many trees or anything really, most of them were cut down to be burnt because they have no other way to produce electricity. The village we see a little is mostly fake. We can see trucks coming from NK to SK, they come from the Kaesong Industrial region. It is the only form of cooperation between both countries, and as I am writing it has been closed because of the ongoing tensions.
We also visited the 3rd Tunnel of Agression. North Korea build many tunnels with the plan to come and invade South Korea, and if it were not for a deserter who told the SK government they existed, they would have never found them. Apparently not all of them have been found. They are really deep and all directed towards Seoul.
Finally the Dorasan Station is the last Train Station to North Korea, it actually says on the signs it is going to Pyeongyang. It was interesting to see how they say it is a first step towards unification. I wish I can come back one day in my life and this trainstation will actually work and send people to Pyeongyang.
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