Verified coast & islands in Busan — descriptions, map and practical info.
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Gwangalli Beach in Suyeong-gu, Busan, is a 1.4 km city beach. Gwangan Bridge spans the bay in front of its half-moon of sand, so people come during the day to walk along the water and after dark to see the bridge lights and the city skylin…
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Spread across the very end of the Nakdong River estuary, Dadaepo Beach is Busan's classic place to watch the sun set over the sea. Fine sand carried down by the river forms a beach 900 m long and 100 m wide, and the water is so shallow tha…
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At the southernmost tip of the Nakdong River estuary, where it meets the open sea, a small pine-covered peninsula forms Morundae. It was an island until the 16th century, when sand carried down by the river linked it to Dadaepo. The name m…
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About 3 km west of Jagalchi Market, a sandy beach curves around a bay lined with hotels and apartment towers. Songdo Beach opened in 1913 as Korea's first beach resort and celebrated its centenary in 2013. These days more people come for t…
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Follow the trail through the dense pine forest and, where the trees end, grey cliffs drop away tens of metres beneath your feet with waves breaking white at the bottom. Taejongdae, a low hilly headland under 200 m high at the south-eastern…
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If you had to pick one image of Busan's coastline, it would be these rocky islets. Oryukdo is a line of small islands about 600 m off the tip of Seungdumal point in Yongho-dong, Nam District. The view is one of the city's emblems, and from…
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Igidae Park lines the coast of Yongho-dong in Busan's Nam-gu district, where the slopes of Jangsanbong drop into the sea in strangely shaped cliffs and broad rock shelves. On the coastal trail you see Gwangan Bridge and Haeundae on one sid…
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Where the sand of Haeundae Beach ends, a small hill thick with pines and camellias juts out into the sea. Dongbaekseom was once an island, but soil and sand carried down by the neighbouring Chuncheoncheon stream gradually joined it to the…
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Haeundae Beach is an urban beach spanning Jung-dong and U-dong in Haeundae District, Busan. Its sand stretches for about 1.5 km and covers some 120,000 m², making it the best-known beach in Korea. Figures for its width vary from 30 to 90 m…