Busan is South Korea’s second largest metropolis after Seoul. It is the largest port city in South Korea and the fifth largest port in the world. Busan was the host city of the 2002 Asian Games and APEC 2005 Korea. It was also one of the host cities for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Busan is home to the world’s largest department store, the Shinsegae Centum City and is pursuing a large number of multi-skyscraper projects, including the 110-floor, 510m-supertall Lotte Super Tower, which is slated to become the world’s third tallest building in 2013, after Burj Khalifa in Dubai and Taipei 101 in Taipei, Taiwan.
Haeundae is an affluent, beach front community that attracts tens of thousands of Korean tourists and foreigners to what many consider to be Korea’s best beach. It has been subject to considerable commercial development. It was recently featured in a movie of the same name, (Haeundae) which happened to be South Korea’s first disaster movie.
Myeong-dong is a dong in Jung-gu, Seoul. Myeongdong dates back to the Joseon Dynasty when it was called Myeongryebang (명례방, 明禮坊) and mostly a residential area. After the Korean War Many department stores, shopping centers, restaurants, upscale shops and boutiques set up their businesses in Myeongdong and it became the mecca for the young and trendy in the 1970s. As of March 2000, Myeongdong’s has been designated as a special Tourism Promotion Area and is one of the stops on the official
The Seoul Olympic Park, shortened to Olpark, is an Olympic Park built to host the 1988 Summer Olympics. Spreading over an area of 1.4 million square meters, the Park boasts, in addition to the sporting facilities, a vast wooded park, the reproduction of two historical sites from the Baekje period (18 BC – 660 AD) – the Mongchon mud wall and the Mongchon moat – as well as more than 200 sculptures and works of art. As a matter of fact, the park is said to be one of the world’s five best sculpture parks.
Jeju Island
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