{"id":158,"date":"2015-11-23T22:07:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=158"},"modified":"2015-11-23T22:28:45","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T22:28:45","slug":"exploring-busan-seomyeon-jagalchi-market-haeundae-and-shinsegae-department-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=158","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Busan: Seomyeon, Jagalchi Market, Haeundae, and Shinsegae Department Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So we started our day by exploring Seomyeon, which was an area walking distance from our hotel. I got my first taste of Tom N Tom, and we also did this photo booth thing that apparently is popular in Korea. Before leaving Seomyeon, we grabbed a light lunch at this Chinese type restaurant.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1881.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1881.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1892.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1892.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1898.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1898.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1906.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1906.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1912.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1912.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter, we headed to the fish market, Jalgachi, where we saw no shortage of interesting dead sea creatures. We also saw some live ones too. We took a brief walk along the waterfront before we had lunch. Lunch was definitely an interesting experience&#8230; by eating a live octopus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1917.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1917.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1923.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1923.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1933.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1933.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1936.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1936.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<video webkit-playsinline=\"\" poster=\"\" onclick=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1944.mov\" controls=\"controls\" preload=\"metadata\"><\/video>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAfter lunch, we made our way to Haeundae to explore the World&#8217;s largest department store, Shinsengae (since 2009 according to the Guinness book of world records). It seemed like a large version of a Macy&#8217;s with an arcade area, movie theater, outdoor kids playground and a golf range (that took up the 11th to 14the floor)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1953.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1953.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1959.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1959.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1966.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1966.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1967.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1967.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1974.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1974.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1987.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1987.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<br \/>\nOur last stop in Busan was the beach at Haeundae. We took some photos there, stopped by another Tom N Tom for an awesome pretzel, then made our way to the airport (we drove over the Gwanganri bridge on the way).<br \/>\n&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1989.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_1989.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2005.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2005.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2006.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2006.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_2011.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So we started our day by exploring Seomyeon, which was an area walking distance from our hotel. I got my first taste of Tom N Tom, and we also did this photo booth thing that apparently is popular in Korea. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/?p=158\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[45,42,40,41,44,39,37,43,38],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-2015","tag-gwanganri-bridge","tag-haeundae","tag-jalgachi","tag-live-octapus","tag-ocean","tag-photo-booth","tag-seomyeon","tag-shinsegae","tag-tom-n-tom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/travel.johnmatienzo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}