Busan is the second largest city in South Korea and happens to have an airport. Jinju is a small 'country side' city about 50 miles west of Busan. This past week I traveled to Jinju and decided to take the inner city bus to get there (although it might look like I was on vacation, not really). On the map below, Busan is on the right and Jinju is lower left.
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There is not a direct bus to Jinju from the airport (PUS), you need to take an city bus to the Sa-sang bus terminal on the west side of Busan. You can take a direct bus to Sa-Sang, but I asked for help. I asked three nice local people if they could show me which bus went to Sa-sang, they ended up negotiating with a normal city-bus that happen to pull up at the airport, if the bus could give me a ride to a bus stop not normally on it's route. The bus driver agreed, I needed help.
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The bus ended up dropping me off here and told me to get on Bus 128. Looking around I had no clue where I was, no people, no cars, everything close. I thought to myself, 'crap'.
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After about 10 minutes, bus 128 actually pulled up and I got on.
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The people who helped me at Busan airport also gave the these instructions of how to get to Sa-Sang bus terminal. They kind of told me to just show this to people. Showing it to people actually worked, when the bus pulled up at Sa-sang, two people looked at me and pointed at the door.
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Ha-ha, looks like the word bus on the paper match's the sign on the wall... well, close enough.
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After about 10 minutes of walking around a weird mix of vendors, construction, people and BBQ places, I found the bus terminal. I got in line, walked up to the window, said 'Jinju'. The lady behind the glass looked at me, took some money and passed me a ticket.
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After walking around a little more, I found the bus. It turns out the spot where the bus to Jinju waits was not labeled Jinju. But again, nice Korean people help me after looking at my ticket.
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And it worked! Jinju has a shop called the 'Demian Collection'
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Here is the river that runs through Jinju, makes it look a little European.
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This is part of the fortress to protect Jinju against foreign invaders.
Here is a view of the countryside city of Jinju.
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