Gwangali 광안리 – Stephen's Travels

October Full Steam Ahead

Not too hot and not too cold – the weather is just right for getting outside and it’s festivals galore this month – [...]

Shamanism (called Muism too) is the oldest religion on the peninsula – coming before Buddhism and Confucianism. The central ceremony to this is [...]

We kept seeing these posters advertising the Eobang (어방 – spirit of the fisherman) Festival on Gwangali (광안리) beach. We walked over to [...]

We discovered a park right next to the traditional market by our apartment. It used to be a naval fortress in the 1600’s [...]

We walked over to Gwangali 광안리 on a cold and overcast afternoon to discover a huge pile of branches and paper offerings on [...]

Despite the cold weather we decided to take a long walk along the coast. After a 10 minute walk from our apartment we [...]

Our neighborhood is called Suyeong 수영 which means ‘swimming’ in Korean. [...]

We made it! Flight from Orlando to Charlotte, JFK in New York, Seoul and finally Busan. Total travel time – about 30 hours. [...]