BUSAN WEEKEND – YOUNG-DO
Young-do is an island outside of the city center of Busan.
“Do” (pronounced: doh) means island and sometimes county.
After a very full day we retired to the very residential Young-Do where Dong-Hui lived. He showed us some of the local view points where we could see the lit boats floating on the ocean and could catch a glimpse of the city.
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| Glass-bottom viewpoint walkway |
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| Busan - no flash |
On Young-Do we settled down with some late night eats at a local outdoor restaurant that specialized in all things seafood.
We had scallops that we cooked over a fire on the half-shell.
After the scallops were finished we put the aluminum dish one which was a seafood melange of mussels, shrimps and all sorts of other seafood.
We ended up sharing a bottle of soju and a bottle of beer
and talking about old times and old dorm mates from college.
That night Jee-Sang, Eun-Joo and I stayed in a motel on
Young-do.
The next morning, we all woke up on the earlier side of
things and decided to walk around and explore Young-do.
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| Young-do |
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| Young-do |
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| Young-do |
We came across the Dongsam-dong Shell Midden Museum. Either
it’s free or they didn’t mind that we were walking around freely.
A shell midden is a place where the early pre-historic
peoples of Korea would discard their used shells after they were done eating
their contents. I would like to think that Koreans today honor their
pre-historic forefathers by following the proud tradition of throwing your
garbage where you please.
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| A replica of the shell midden- Behold: Pre-historic garbage! |
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| Model of how the pre-historic Koreans lived |
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| These were commonly found- are a linked to some deity |
I wish I could tell you more but the brochure I picked up is only in Korean.
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