Busan-Seoul Day 4: Jagalchi Market & Gamcheon Culture Village

It's the Hubby's birthday today so we're heading back to Jagalchi Market for the Hubby's favourite live seafood! 😋

Beautiful colours of the sunrise from our room window that morning

As we had done on the first day of our trip, we took Line 1 (orange) from Seomyeon Station to Nampo Station (Exit 2). We arrived at around 10.30am, which was good timing since the market and most restaurants opened at 9am and 10am respectively.

Jagalchi Market

We headed straight into the wholesale market since it was closed on 3 days ago when we visited

The Hubby randomly picked stall 218 as the sellers were super friendly and could speak English

Clockwise from left: Various seafood;
Four live sea urchins for ₩20,000;
Four fresh abalone for ₩15,000.

The Littlest's favourite prawns were ₩70,000 for 6
(not exactly the cheapest but she really loves prawns!)

Super huge 3.5kg king crab for ₩270,000!

The Mum-in-law and I got the Hubby the king crab for his birthday present, just as I had done 2 years ago at Noryangjin Fish Market in Seoul! 😆

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Once we were done with choosing our seafood, the seller Mr Kim directed us to their partner restaurant located upstairs.

We sat at a table by the window

Clockwise from left: The Littlest loved the prawns!;
Super huge prawns! No wonder so expensive!;
Sea urchins were fresh but a bit small.

Look at the massive king crab! So yummy! 😋

Fresh abalone for the abalone-loving Mum-in-law

We loved the fish so much that we went back to Mr Kim to get another!

Various scallops, oysters and cockles that Mr Kim threw in for FREE

The total cost for our seafood meal was ₩407,000, inclusive of cooking fees. It was our most expensive meal of this trip! 🤭💸

After a very satisfying lunch, we consulted the Naver app (Google Maps does not work well in Korea) for the best route to Gamcheon Culture Village. The app directed us to take the train to Toseong Station and walk from Exit 6 to a bus stop where we can take a few buses to the village.

Walking to the bus stop and taking Bus 2

We alighted at this bus stop, according to the directions of the bus announcement

It was a great weather for taking beautiful photos! It was a bit sunny but the sky was blue!

Great photo spot for taking photos with the famous Gamcheon Culture Village

Love this family photo!

More photo ops!

Interesting decor

We discovered the Gamcheon Culture Village Souvenir Shop where we bought a lot of really cool souvenirs to support the village

The village was very interesting, with many interesting things to buy!

Some examples of the art that can be found in every corner of the village

Gamcheon Cultural Village was known for being artistic so the Hubby wanted to get an artist to draw a cartoon caricature of both of us. We found a shop where the artist, who goes by @Kimjakaworks on Instagram, drew a caricature of the Hubby and I in just 15 minutes.

Samples of her works

With the finished product at the front of her shop

The finished art piece! 😁

We also climbed the hill just to see the famous The Little Prince. I have no idea what this story is or means but we took pictures because it was rather cute.

Cute photo of my family

Another view of Gamcheon Culture Village

When we were done with exploring the village, we hailed two taxis back to Lotte Department Store Gwangbok (cost ₩7100 per taxi). We returned to Lotte Mart as we loved it so much on the first day!

We bought buns and pastries from OPS (hits and misses)

When we were done with shopping, we returned to our hotel to drop off our shopping before heading for dinner.

Outside the beautifully lighted Lotte Department Store Busan

For our final dinner in Busan for this trip, we headed back to Dudong Chuksan as we had loved it since the first night we tried it! 

Enjoying our yummy Korean BBQ

We really ordered a lot of meat and the final cost of our meal was ₩95,500, significantly cheaper than Singapore! 😄

We ended the night with Sauna at our hotel before we packed up our luggage in preparation for departure the next day!

Can't believe 4 days went by in such a flash! Busan, we will be back! 🫰🏻

You can consider these alternative attractions in Busan:

• Lotte World Busan
• Skyline Luge Busan
• National Maritime Museum
• Oryukdo Skywalk  
• Gukje Market

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