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Beomeosa – Busan, ROK
Jagalchi Market
Jagalchi Market (자갈치시장) Busan, South Korea
The guidebooks said to watch out for the smells at Jagalchi Market in Busan, but I found it to be one of the least offensive markets, smell-wise, in the many that I visited while in Korea last summer. However, that may have had more to do with the fact that it had been raining all morning. A much smaller Korean market with raw fish, slabs of meat (not on ice and covered with all manner of bugs), and live chickens can be far more offensive to the nostrils on a hot, humid day without a breeze than a gigantic market like Jagalchi which has been doused in rain.
Geumgang Park (금강공원)
Geumgang Park has seen better days
I went to Geumgang Park in Busan, South Korea in order to eventually make it to the fabled Seokbulsa. The park looked substantial at the gate. There were several employed men of the park standing around talking with each other. I asked them where I could find the cable car and they ignored me. Maybe they would understand the word ropeway? They scowled at me and kind of looked in a direction which I proceeded to follow. The park looks like it was once thriving, but perhaps they stopped maintaining it once they removed the admission fee in 2004. The rides weren’t operating and didn’t look like they had been for years.
I walked along the path with garbage and ruins on either side in order to get to the cablecar that would take me to the top. I was almost surprised to see it functioning, but I was able to go up and explore.
Geumgang Park garbage
Chris Seddon of the SK Wyverns
Chris Seddon
I mentioned previously that all of the foreign players (limit 2 per team) in Korea are pitchers. I think there was at least one foreign pitcher who played in every one of the half dozen games I went to. Chris Seddon was one of them, pitching against the Lotte Giants. Chris played for the Marlins, Mariners, and Indians in the bigs before landing in Korea.
Notice the chewed up infield in the above photo. This despite the fact that Busan is supposed to have the best stadium in Korea.