#1 Gamcheon2-dong Culture Village

Hidden Places in Busan

Many people visiting Korea now a day. Most of them visit Seoul, the capital city of Korea, and Busan, the second largest city in Korea. The tourism in Busan has been developing for a last few years. However, still many people don’t know about lots of hidden places in Busan. Most of them just visit well-known places such as Haeundae, Nampo-dong, etc. We are going to make a blog that introduce unknown places in Busan. A first project is introducing culture or mural village in Busan. There are 10 mural villages in Busan. These villages are formed by gathering people who are lower class. Therefore, you can see the lower class people’s life in a step. As became a mural/ culture village, the villages are turned into a unique place that life and art is coexists. Currently, several villages are getting famous among the people who are interested in photography, wants to remind their memory of child and a bloggers visit and posting about the villages. Nevertheless, still many people do not know about those places even if they are living in Busan like us. The very first place that we are going to introduce is Gamcheon2-dong culture village, Taegukdo village as known as Lego village or Santorini of Korea. The culture village is ongoing project while you reading this posting. Let’s get into the culture village, Taegukdo.


#1 Gamcheon2-dong Culture Village

The Origin

Gamcheon was the original quiet seaside town but was changed into a fairly large town now. Taegukdo is the one of the reasons that brought this change. Korea War broke out and thousands of the refugees formed 800 shacks in Gamcheon. In addition the believers of Taegukdo, religion, consulted with government in 1955 and moved headquarter, still exist in the village, to Gamcheon-dong in 1958. Althought Gamcheon-dong had been a large village which population was 20,000 people in 1980’s, the population was reduced 10000 people.

How can I get there?

That is not so difficult as you can see the map. Take a underground line number 1 (Orange line) and take off at Toseong-dong or Goejeong station. And then, get out from the station via Exit 6 and get on the local village bus, 1-1, 2, 2-1 in front of Pusan National University Hospital (PNUH) Cancer Centre when you take off at Toseong-dong or 1, 1-1 opposite side of Newcore oulet when you take off at Goejeong, to get to the bus stop, Gamjung Elementry school. Alternatively, you can take the Taxi from underground station. It will cost around ￦2,200 to ￦3,000.

2009 Village art Project

<Dreaming Machu Picchu of Busan>

This project processed under the sponsorship of Ministry of culture, sports & tourism from June 2009 to September 2009. Art factory in Dadaepo, Art & Culture organisation, installed 10 sculptures along the road. Local residents participated in 4 artworks.

1.       Sweet whisper of dandelion by Shin Mukyung with residents

2.       Human and bird by Jeon Youngjin

3.       Dreaming fish by Park Kyungsuk

4.       Good Morning by Beak Sunggeun

5.       A balloon has song of hope by An Jaegook

6.       Trip of Autumn by An Seunghak

7.       Put my mind in balloon by Park eunsaeng with students

8.       The flower way that we decorated by Ha youngju with students

9.       Step of the sky by Park injin

10.   Village that rainbow are burst into by Moon Byeongtak with residents

2010 Miro Miro Project (Miro means maze)

Miro Miro Project combined an alley project and an empty house project. That had processed from March 2010 to October 2010.

An empty house project

They installed artworks at six houses among empty houses in Gamcheon2-dong. Clockwise from the upper left; Photo Gallery / Constellation / Haneul maru / The Hose of peace / Trace At Home.

Through these projects, empty houses are protected from a criminal and also give a good impression to residents and visitors. You can print your photo free of charge if you visit and stamp on the map from empty houses.

An alley project

Even if you visit the village first time, you can easily find a way; see the artworks here and there when you follow the directional signs, fishes and arrows, on the wall. Moreover, you can see the exceptional views maybe you have never seen before while you walking through the alley.

Extra Activities (an experience programme)

1. Pottery

# Price

Cup: ￦8,000 won
Bell, Pot: ￦10,000 won

My pottery: Adult: ￦12,000 / Student: ￦10,000

2. Natural dyeing

# Price
Handkerchief: ￦6,000
Scarf: ￦12,000
T-Shirts or Eco-bag: ￦10,000(buy) / ￦5,000(reform)


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More you can see

There are many places in Sa-Ha gu where the ‘Taegeuk do village’ is located. I’d like to introduce the Da-dae-po beach, Eul-suk island, and Molundae.

1. Da-Dae-Po beach

The Da-Dae-Po beach is attraction that has a wide and half-moon shaped sandy beach located on downside of the Nack-Dong River. Every year, many tourists are coming here and they can see beautiful sunup and sunset. In addition, you can see a fountain show at here which is the best in the world. It is in harmony with music and light and free of charge.

2. Eul-suk island

This is made of the Nakdong Delta and full of field of reeds and water plants. And it is also migratory bird’s home because it has a lot of fish.

And there is a sculpture park where some entry of Busan Biennale so here is the place with culture and natural landscape.

3. Molundae

The name ‘Molundae’ means an island in cloud. Molundae is one of the three platforms in Busan with ‘Taejongdae’ and ‘Haeundae’. It is signed up for cultural asset and has history for 600 years. It is a landscape of singular beauty so many people came since early times. Especially poets often came here. You can feel a beauty of nature through trail and stroll of Molundae.

4. Democracy Park

It is a park located in Young-Joo dong, Jung-Gu, Pusan, and opened on 16th October, 1999 commemorating the Pu-ma democracy struggle’s 20th anniversary.  There are some facilities; middle theater, small theater, computer room, information booth, relaxing room, gallery, reference library, and preservation room, etc. Especially an outside square has a lot of plants and is used for a wedding, concert hall, etc. You can learn about several pro-democracy movements in modern times of Korea and spend your spare time.

5.  Pusan Central Park

It is located in Young-Joo 2nd dong, Jung-Gu, Pusan, near the democracy park. The place is constructed to make the Daechung Mountain for park where many refugees of the 6.25 war lived in. The monument for the war dead at the top of the park is 70m high and there are 7,704 of fallen patriots. In front of this monument, there are wide plaza, sculpture garden, middle library, other monuments, and also sports field. Like the democracy park of above, you can enjoy your holiday at here with your family.

6. Wartime capital memorial

Busan was the wartime capital during the 6.25 war and this building used the presidential residence. 

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