Busan: urban beaches and Asia's largest fish market

South Korea's second-largest city, Busan pairs busy urban beaches with the largest fish market in all of Asia.

The subway remains the most convenient way to move between different neighborhoods.

The Jagalchi Fish Market, the largest in South Korea, sells daily fresh fish and seafood just caught, some still alive in the market stall tanks.

A few minutes away, Haeundae Beach, the most famous in the country, fills every summer with umbrellas and bathers along over one kilometer of sand.

Continuing on, you visit the Gamcheon Cultural Village, a district of colorful houses built in terraces on a hill, became one of the most photographed destinations in the city.

Toward evening, the Haedong Yonggungsa Temple, a rare Buddhist temple built directly on a cliff overlooking the sea, illuminates during evening celebrations.

Gamcheon Village, once a poor neighborhood built by Korean War refugees, was transformed into a tourist attraction only in the two-thousands through a community art project of murals and installations.

Haedong Yonggungsa Temple, unlike most Korean Buddhist temples typically built in mountains, stands directly on rocks in contact with the ocean's waves.