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SPRING 2019
SPRING 2019
This week, my girlfriend and I decided to take a short intercountry trip to Busan. Busan is a seaport city in South Korea that is famous for its fish markets. In order to get there, we needed to take the KTX train, which is similar to the bullet train in Japan. It's much faster than the other trains in South Korea. It's a 325 kilometer one-way trip, which is roughly equivalent to 201 miles. The train ride took three and a half hours. It was a lot longer than expected. I was able to eat dinner, study for final exams, work on my business, and take a short nap. Very productive! Here's a picture of the KTX train as it was coming into the station: By the time we got to Busan, it was 5pm so we didn't have much time to explore before the sun went down. The first thing we did was take a taxi to the Busan Air Cruise. It's a famous tourist landmark that has cable cars with clear glass bottoms. The cable cars start at one end of Songdo Marine Beach Park and go over the water towards the other end of the bay. It was really cool because we could see coral, fishing boats, waves, crab nets, etc. We lucked out and got onto the cable cars right around 6pm when the sun was setting. After the sun went down, we took a taxi over to the Jagalchi Fish Market. It's the largest seafood market in Korea and it's rumored to have the freshest seafood in the country! We got a snow crab, 6 sea urchins, 4 tiger shrimps, and 2 abalones. After purchasing the live seafood, the fisherman took us upstairs where they had their cooks prepare our meal. That's about as fresh as it can get!
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