My Korea Tour Day 4 – Travel Guide to Gwangbok-dong cultural and fashion street
After our Friday night explore to Gwangalli Beach Busan and trying the super duper great Samgyeopsal meal, we decided to visit Busan downtown on the next day. We had fantastic fish and rice breakfast in the morning Jagalchi market and caught the sight of how local Korean spent their morning hours on the dock. Later, just opposite Jagalchi Market, the Gwangbok-dong cultural and fashion street would be our next destination. In the afternoon session, we continued to strolled up to Yongdu-san and took a panoramic view of the city from the top of Busan Tower. Before the sun set, Jean and I had a brief rest in a cafe and continued to experience the world’s largest water fountain musical display in Lotte departmental store. Stroll down this page to read the full story.
Gwangbok-dong is a popular cultural and fashion street where local and foreign visitors came to hunt for everything. To reach here, you can hop on a subway Line 1 train from any city (in our case, we took Line 2 train from Haeundae Beach and transferred to Line 1 at Seomyeon) and get off at either Busan downtown’s Jagalchi Market station or Nampo station. Both stations can lead you to Gwangbok-dong.
Gwangbok-dong cultural and fashion street is also being called as the Myeong-dong of Busan, albeit in a smaller scale in terms of area and volume of crowds.
Street foods could mostly be found along Guduek-ro, Namp-gil and further up North at Gukje Market. Local varieties such as the fish skewers are found. Traditional street snacks such as Tteokbokki (Soft rice cakes) can sure be found here.
These were our lunch! They are simply mouth watering, even when I saw these photos while writing this article! 🙂
Having had sticks of a variety of fish roll and bean curb skin skewers for 1,000 KW each, we continued our fashion goods hunting in the alleys!
If you are looking for local Korean made fashion goods, here is the perfect option. However, for more international fashion chains and restaurants, get out of the ro’s and gil’s and you will come to the much anticipated Myeongdong-like shopping street. Here we came the Gwangbok-dong street.
Alright, we were busy shopping around and not much photos were taken except these following few. See them first here and plan a trip there to explore it yourselves in the future! 🙂
Actually photos shown above and below were snapped after we came down from Yongdusan park. Yongdusan and Busan Tower are literally behind the Gwangbok-dong street. There is an escalator to connect both the park and Gwangbok-dong but we missed it earlier on. We followed the longer way up the hill! (More stories coming up next). 🙂
As you can see above, this is the shorter entrance and exit point to the Busan Tower, which is in the midst of Gwangbok-dong street.
We were fortunate to have a sunny day in Busan city centre. Evening sun actually warmed us up during our Korean tour in last Spring.
You can see all these photos in full resolution on my Flickr album. To get there, check out the Google Guide Map below.
Coming up next, find out how we experienced the world’s largest water fountain musical display in Lotte departmental store and continued to shop in the new Centum City! 🙂 – Travel Feeder
About The Author
Cecil Lee
The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.
