South Korea- Part 3

Its been about a week since I've returned from my amazing trip to Korea I can still remember the smells, sounds, and people of this beautiful country. This is my last post and I hope you have enjoyed the photographs as much as I have enjoyed sharing them.

Throughout my trip I took a photo of my meals and here are some of them. As you can see many of the meals are family style with a central dish allowing for a very social and interactive eating experience.

The full moon rises over Haeundae Beach.

A fisherman with the skyline of Busan in the background.

Busan Museum of Modern Art.

Old world meets new as this old lady sells roasted chestnuts to young kids going out for the night.

Businesses with signs everywhere.

A fisherman with the East China Sea slowly fading into night.

The Jalgachi Fish Market is the largest fish market in Korea and its truly a sight to be seen. Picture narrow one lane alley ways jam packed with booths of hundreds of people selling thousands of products. It seems to go on forever with each new turn revealing another endless ally way of peddlers selling dried seafood, live seafood, restaurants with huge pots full of steaming soups and all the while scooters whizzing past weaving in and out of the hordes of people.

One of the coolest parts was where you could pick out a fish that's still alive swimming in a tank and have it prepared for you in an upstairs restaurant. We were walking around this section taking photos and generally looking like typical white tourists gaping at all the weird and crazy seafood that seemed like common items to them. We were approached by the man below who spoke some english and he talked us into getting these two fish to eat. After our purchase he quickly went to work as we were escorted upstairs to get a table. He cut half the fish up in thin slices of sashimi and the other half was grilled. This was one of my best experiences here in Korea and one I'll never forget.

The Jalgachi Fish Market and nearby Nampo-Dong Market are mazes of side streets and narrow roads that a car can barely drive down if at all. It was a little information overload at these places but after a bit I was sort of able to navigate around and I quickly found interesting things to photograph.

 

I don't consider myself a people photographer, but when I would walk around these markets I couldn't help to want to capture the people that were the backbone of this thriving economy. Mostly women run these booths and they have a rough exterior working very hard everyday but some were nice enough to let me take a couple photos of them.

And I leave you with this parting shot of the Diamond Bridge which is one of the main visual focal points of the city of Busan. At night it is brilliantly lit up making for some beautiful photographs.