Haeundae 해운대 – Stephen's Travels

Polar Bear Plunge 북극곰 수영 축제 and Basketball Game

Each January in Busan, people gather on Haeundae 해운대 beach to plunge into the freezing water. It started in 1988 after the Olympics were [...]

After getting our bikes serviced in the neighborhood, we rode to Haeundae Aquarium. [...]

2013 marks the 18th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), one of the biggest in Asia. This year almost a quarter-million people came to [...]

It’s early September and the days of laying on the beach without a shirt and playing in the water without freezing are numbered. [...]

We took a bike ride with our friend, Ann-Marie, and rode over to Songjeong 송정 beach for the Reggae Festival – a weekend [...]

We packed our beach bags and hopped on our bikes to ride to our favorite beach in Busan – Songjeong 송정 beach. It’s [...]

There are free bicycle rentals in about 10 different locations in Busan. We tried these out in early June and realized how great [...]

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

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