Sunday, December 2, 2007

My seaside city

My hometown, Busan, is located at very south of Korean peninsula. It is second big city after Seoul, the capital city, and has huge port and several famous beaches. Originally, Busan wasn't a significant city. However during the Korean war, Nakdong river which draws city border of Busan, worked as a protection wall for the refugees from north. After the war, some of refugees remained in the city, and add diversity to it. Talking about diversity, another special feature of Busan is that the city has a few foreign district like Chinese town, Russian market, unlike the other cities in Korea. Busan has been developed a lot more than any other cities after the war. Now it has a huge bridge which across the ocean, and lot of super tall buildings everywhere. Someone said that Busan is so unique, because the city has lots of small mountains and river and ocean, and still containing the brilliant modern architecture. What I think the most proud of my hometown, is PIFF, Busan's international film festival. Its start was not that fabulous, but during the past 10 years, it has grown up to important film festival in Asia. I grew up with this film festival, although all the mid terms stopped me to enjoy that, I have special feeling toward it.
I hope someday I could feel the festive fever.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow. This is my first time to learn about PIFF. I have watched some films from Korea over the last 10 years or so, and I can see how things are changing.

A good friend of mine is from Busan, so when I go to Korea, I really want to spend some time there. :) Thanks for your description.

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