sightseeing

BUSAN, South Korea - Busan City is moving to ramp up tours of the area in terms of quantity and quality with a focus on building up tourism infrastructure and improving customer service.

One of the first measures is extending the number of Busan City Tour courses and reducing the intervals between them.

BUSAN, South Korea --“This had better be the best temple I’ve ever seen,” my friend Cheryl declared after about two hours of hiking as we trudged up the last stretch of an intense incline. She had walked ahead, on a mission to find out if our trek to Seokbulsa (Stone Buddha Temple) would be as memorable as we had all hoped. At a turtle’s pace, the other four of us walked through the main entrance, greeted by the usual colorful wooden structures that characterize Korea’s Buddhist temples.

BUSAN, South Korea -- After hearing tales of such things, earlier this recent winter, I wanted to eat some black goat. I expressed this fascination to a friend and fellow motorist, and discovered that there was a place to do just that not far from my home in PNU, just up a winding mountain road behind the campus, in Sanseong Village.