Jagalchi Fish Market

YOYO!

Today (November 8) Molly and I made our way down to Nampo-Dong to check out Jagalchi fish market and do a little browsing in the shopping district. We ventured on the bus rather than the subway so we could see more of the city instead of being underground for an hour. But we didn’t really know where we were going…I had done this once and Molly hadn’t at all. OOPS. But everything went smoothly after jumping off the bus cause everyone else was! We try not to buy anything when we go browsing but always seem to buy some ridiculous stuff because it’s so cheap. It’s so cheap that we’ve become cheap and try to bargain things down. GAH honestly in Canada I would buy a scarf for $20 easily but here we see so many scarf vendors that we say “As if they’re selling those scarves for $12”. However, I always come home with a new one. We had way too much fun getting a couple special things for my BF then headed down to the fish market.

The market is several blocks long full of live, dried, dead, and half dead seafood. We also stumbled upon dead dog…I can’t grasp the idea that people would eat dog…Sick. We walked up and down the market taking pictures…being total tourists and watching living things being skinned live then thrown into a bucket and still givin’r moving around. So crazy! We also saw a live octopus escape from its bucket and we screamed/pointed then she nonchalantly chucks it back in the bucket like it was nothing. Hilarious! As we were getting soaked with fish stank on our clothes and shoes we walked down to the dock where the fishing boats were to take some pictures. As we were leaving this area no really paying attention to anything we found a dead shark! AS IF! It was just lying there with its stomach hacked up. SICK, yet so cool, yet kinda sad….After that point we were over with the market and ventured back to the subway BUT being crazy we decided to try the bus it back to Hwamyeong….We asked a man and he knew a little English and got excited and started to run so stupidly we ran with him and jumped on his bus because we thought he was showing us where to go. We had no idea if we were going to Hwamyeong and the traffic sucked so we jumped off in Seomyeong (an area we know) to catch the subway home.
Molly smelled like ass/fish cause he jeans we soaked at the feet so she was killing everyone/me on the ride back. Twas, definitely an adventure but really you can’t get lost in Busan because of the comfort of the subway and it being so easy. Until next folks! xo