Entering Gamcheon Culture Village

Now we enter the third day in Busan! (It’s only the third?? :P )

I started the day by going to Gamcheon Culture Village. This village is a common filming location for variety shows, and of course I have seen it in Running Man. So I was really excited to explore the place.

At the entrance of the village, we can buy a map (they actually instruct us to buy one), for 2000 won if I remember correctly. The profit goes toward maintaining the village.

Anyway, I was really glad I bought the map, because the village was seriously a maze. Without a map, I think I would have gotten totally lost. Even with the map, several times I didn’t end up where I thought I would, and had to study the map carefully to figure out where I was.

This is the map:

(rather blurred but it's just to let you see what it looks like)

The other side tells us about all the artwork in the village (on the right), and some other information. I have zoomed in on two sections in the photos below.

Guess how long I spent in this village? A little more than two and a half hours, from the timestamps on my photos. The map gave us three tour courses, with the shortest one taking 40 minutes, and the longest one two hours, to collect all the stamps. (you can see the stamps that I collected on the top-left corner of the map) I didn’t even collect all the stamps, and I didn’t even visit some of the artwork…but I spent so long there!

I have more than a hundred photos from this village alone, so again it will be split up into multiple posts. The overall vibe is murals, artwork, tiny paths, and stairs. I'll just bring you through the way I went through the village!

tiny path with butterflies

one of the main artworks, a fish made out of small wooden plaques (we see loads of these wooden plaques everywhere)

Then I saw this Korean traditional snack museum...but was rather disappointed when I entered and found that there was no info on the snacks, no snacks to try, but instead...cute snacks?

Going up, there was a viewing platfom.

One of the iconic views!

frankly, I have a few photos like this taken from different locations, and if I just pick one, I have no idea where I snapped the photo from

closer look at the buildings

post boxes for you to send something back to yourself

see how the road is sloping?

Gamcheon Bakery. I like how that cat is looking inside!

To be continued!