Unexpected, unplanned trip to Pusan
Thanks for all your welcoming and being interested in my blog. It seemed as if I started my blog with a bang. I will try to respond your comments as much as I can at the end of the entry.
Hello Jim. Thanks for welcoming! Wow! you have been to Korea? I hope you had a good time. I really don’t know where you took the photo. I guess it might be in Kyeng-ju. I visited Kyeng-ju, which is a cultural city, and I remember I saw a huge buddha statue somewhere. Hope I’m right.
The following is about my trip to Pusan. I didn’t really take pictures of the landscapes while I took many pictures of my friends and me, so I am sorry I can’t show you everything about Pusan. However, whenever I take pictures, I realize that our eyes cannot be compared to the world best camera. If you have a chance of coming to Korea, this is one of the must-see cities, so, visit here and make pictures with your eyes.
It was a last minute decision to go to Pusan. I finished my final exam the last Sunday. I was sick and tired of being at the collage residence after having done all the work for the semester. So did my friends. So, we just decided to get away from Seoul and go to somewhere far away from the familiar city. The place we decided on was Pusan, where my friends had never been before and I just had visited once. As you might expect, we really didn’t know what we would find out, but the idea of going to “never been city” thrilled us to bits.
We caught the train at 10:30 at night. It was a night train. I never expected I would see so many people the small hours on the train. It took us 6hours to get to Pusan. In fact, you can catch a fast train and it takes only about 2 or 3hours. The long journey was fun, though. We did long lists of chatting and catching up with each other.
At last, we arrived in the Pusan Station at 4.30 in the morning. I really wanted to see sun rising from the beach. If it hadn’t been for the clouds, it would have been a fantastic start for the trip. Sadly, it was quite cloudy, come to think of it, the sun seemed to be already in the sky somewhere.
After having light breakfast, we headed to Taejongdae. I will show you some pictures of it. It’s a wonderful place to take a walk. Actually, I saw quite a lot of people walking up. From a distance it looks like a small mountain, but it is a cliff.
After this place, I went to some other famous places such as the place where the international film festival took place, the huge fish market, and the beach with the Gwang-An Bridge which has pretty lights at night. We started the day at 4.30 and the day was really long, and it was very hot, temperature was about 30 degrees. So, next day, we decided to have fun on the beach.
Haeundae is one of the famous beaches in Korea, and you cannot imagine how many people actually come here for holidays. When it’s the season for sea-bathing or sun-bathing, whatever, you would say that there are half people and half water in the sea. I wouldn’t really like being there with too many people. Fortunately, I think we were there at the right time. We really didn’t go into the water as the water was quite cold, then we walked along the beach with bare feet and played with the sands just like children. Near the beach there is an island called Dongbeksum, where you can also take a walk through with feeling a nice sea breeze and it’s leading to Nurimaru APEC House.
As I said in the previous blog entry, Pusan is the second biggest city in South Korea. I could feel that this city has something to draw people’s attention. I loved hanging around the old fashioned fish market, but also I liked going shopping in the big department store. I wished I could live in the apartment where you can look over the sea. It’s kind of being in a city with nature.
That was my short journey story. I hope you enjoyed it. I really wanted to help you to draw some pictures on your mind about Pusan. I always find it difficult to make descriptions in English. So, I’ll leave it to your imagination.
Here we are for the comments!
It really surprised me to see so many comments on the first entry. Thanks for all the encouragement and interests. I’m afraid I won’t be able to respond all your comments.
First of all, Nice to meet you all Koreans out there, especially, Hyoshil, Hwajung and Sook. I know how you feel about having been away from home country. Last year when I was in England I really missed being surrounded by the familiar things which I had never appreciated and coming back here and seeing such things was great, but don’t feel homesick and enjoy your life there as well.
About the weather in Korea
There are four seasons. Now it’s summer when we have a rainy season, monsoon for a month. After this one month, the weather is going to be very hot. It’s always best to stay at home surrounding yourself with cool air at this time, but it also can be fun going for a swim. Autumn comes from September to November, and winter is normally from December to February, and it doesn’t snow all over the country equally, like Pusan which is located in the south of S. Korea, you hardly see snows. I just say that the snow in the picture was actually about 40 centimetres in depth, but that much snow is not normal to see in Korea.
About my summer school
Even though I’m studying biology, I’m giving myself the chance to study something different. I’m taking the course titled as human migration and mobility in a Global Era. I should have time to talk about this course later on. The university also provides lots of stuff to engage the students with this summer semester such as Korean food festival, visiting cultural places, some city tours, parties and so on.
About the rest of questions
I might be able to write about Ginseng. I will see what I can talk about it. Alessandro, actually, the football player I mentioned is in the Manchester United F.C in England. He is a hard-working person, and I think he deserves his position.
That's all for today. Thanks for reading it.
Jiae
Comments
Hello Jiae, those pictures you showed us are great. You look very beautiful walking on the beach and drawing on the sand. You certainly managed to give us a great feeling of what Pusan is. You must be very excited about this new activity you're about to start. It's great to have a chance to meet so many different people. I'm sure they'll like you as much as we all did. Thank you for your nice blog. See you soon, Mauricio.
Hi Jiae, The pictures are absolutely amazing. I can imagine from the pictures how beautiful Pusan is. Visiting places with friends is always the most enjoyable experience. Especially, when you don’t have other responsibilities such as looking after children. This blog was also as amazing as the last one. Looking forward to your next blog. Take care
Very nice again to see other nice pictures of landascaps and about you leisure time. Well, as I am not so fan of soccer, probably, it'd be easier for me to know some names of brazilian players than others on europe league but it's very nice to know that he is playing hard to get his position. We really need a mingling culture on world soccer. You guys from Korea (south) are very lucky for have the four seasons so different of each other. Here in Brazil I use to say that we have only two seasons, one with heat and rain and another with dry air and a bit cold wind between 15 and 10 degrees average. In southern Barzil it's colder than the rest of the country but I'm talking about my place here in Rio. Is it hard for you guys to learn latin alphabet or do your schools teach also this one way of writting? It's something I really wanted to know. Thank you for you former answer.
Thank you very much.....you have enjoyed a very good trip.
Hello Jiae and a big warm welcome to you in the blog area. I should say your English is just wonderful and you can master it easily. I also loved your entries and your views about the university life. I wish you could also discuss: where did you learn English and how did you do so? What are your hobbies besides traveling and playing piano? what are the main traditions in Korea and how do people perceive life out there?? Thank you so much in advance. Keep going on. Yours Bïa
Wow...that's place so beautiful;))) Hope someday later I will come to see that place too:)
Hi Jiae, I learnt from you a new phrase " the small hours", thanks. As I read on the Official Site of Korean Tourism that there is a Goodwill Guide service, free of charge, does is work well? This entry is very well. see you around, James.
I love all, the pretty city with so cute girl.
i haven't been to Korea before, i hope i will have the chance to travel there in the future
Hello, Jiae! The pictures are beautiful! I cannot stop looking at them. You will make me buy a camera and go shooting landscapes in a country where I live. Can they be so beautiful as Korean ones, or only your country has such a nice mixture of the sea and mountains? Your blog is a good example that hard work pays off, and you are on a right path of becoming one of the most successful student bloggers. I wish you good luck with your every work that you do because you proved that you are good at it.
Hi Jiae, thank you so much for sharing about Korea, you know I like reading your blog because I'm hoping someday that I will visit your beautiful country. I will waiting again your next blog and I hope you will share with us about the culture of korean people and also about foods there, you know I like kimchi so much because before I was working in the factory owned by korean and they gave us kimchi and they told me that very good for health. Your blog is so amazing...keep up the good work. Wish all the best.. Mabuhay!!!
I really like what you wrote. Just simple words but when all of them are combined make a good entry!!! Go go go... create more and more great post guy :)
I love the movies of South Korea. I have saw so many movies of your country. They are so wonderful. If you have a chance, I suggest that you could come to China to travel. There are so many beautiful landscape in China.
wow joe very cool place to travel, specially place with stone.
Hi, I'm not student of english language, but I like learn.
Hello, Jeao! thanks for your contribution to our knowledge over the world. we learn a lot about korea on the football world cup, you country is always take as exemple of how a country can get the development in spite of the difficulties by means of the education of its people. there are a lot of koreans living here in são paulo and giving a enormous contributions to the develpment of our country, come here to know us.. hugs.
Haeundae, which is in Pusan, is very well known for its gulls and girls - 'girls' is obviously joking. Since I don't have any memory of being in Haeundae, I'm curious how the gulls in Pusan behave. I had a little shot-by-poo-accident in the UK. It was lovely Brighton Beach where I first saw the beautiful white seagull which turned into a white flying beast loaded with liquid dung, waiting to target a 17-year-old Asian boy. And that was the moment I finally understood my cousin's ornithophobia. So here's my final question. Does the seagull in Pusan behave as badly as that of Brighton Beach does? *If you have any chance to go to the Brighton Beach, where trillions of rocky pebbles and the seagulls moving radical bowel movement await you, please do go on - Don't you ever think of going near there.
Hi Jiae! Nice to meet you. This the first time I read the student blog and I hope I can follow yours regularly. I'm sure this will be a great opportunity to learn more about South Korea and practice my English. Nice pictures! You didn't take many pictures of the landscape, but you stirred my curiosity up. I really aprecciate seeing different landscapes. Here where I live (in the north-east of Brazil), there are lots of beaches, but I believe the weather is very different from Pusan: it's hot all the year and there are only a rainy season and a dry season. I'm looking forward to your next entry. Best wishes, Henrique.
Nice to meet you Jiae,I am studying biology too. I'm very glad so do you! Good Luck!
hello! I'm korean too. I'm not good at english. but I want to be good at english someday... so I regularly listen in BBC site. Today, I notice this blog. and i was astonished ^^ um...TT I want to talk more... but.. I can't TT anyway, nice to meet you! and i will join your blog again!
Hi Jiae! Many thank you for the another great writing, and I am sure it gives many readers/bographers from all over the world a feel for the vibrant and fascinating city. Keep up the good work, and take care of yourself! By the way I’d love to say hello to one of my good friends, Leila from Finland. She was one of great students and netizen in Learning English land . I appreciate her kind words and hope to read her comments more in this space.
Hi Jiae, thank you for taking us to travel with you. Since now, I have been very ignorant regarding South Korea. You have opened my eyes a little and no doubt during July we all learn more about your native soil. Thank you for regards Hyoshil, yeah we are netizens of the world.
Hello Jiae! pleased to meet you. It was so funny ready about your trip to Pusan, the Taejongdae cliff is really beautiful.. I hope one day visit your country. :)
do you live in Korea, now? how did you enjoy this site? i feel like knowing you. do you have minihomepage? if you have it, you let me know it. how are you studying English i just know how to do English very well ~~~ Take care
Hello and welcome Jiae! Pusan is a wonderful place. Best wishes, Ana Paula.
Even though I was Korean, I had never went to Busan! The photo you had show me gave me some clues(?) about Busan! Thak you for giving us a wonderful teach(강의)! P.S. I think the spelling of Pusan is Busan... Thanks!
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