2 Best Shopping in Busan, South Korea

"Come! See! Buy!" This is the official motto of Korea's largest fish market, and no trip to Busan would be complete without a stroll down its thrumming concourse, where super fresh seafood of all types is splayed out in all of its scaly, tentacled glory. While the sleek, new raw fish center is distinctive, with glass paneling and a roof designed to look like seagulls, the surrounding streets will give you a better idea of the workings of the market, which are as old-school Busan as it gets.

Busan's most sprawling market sells everything from clothes and jewelry to bowls of steaming noodles and bean porridge. It's hard to know where the various market buildings begin and end, and when Gukje Market becomes Bupyeong Kkangtong Market. What is certain is the lively atmosphere and great eats such as dangmyeon (glass noodles) and chungmu gimbap (seaweed rice rolls with spicy radish) served up on Gukje's famous food street. The market was also the setting for the 2014 hit Korean film, Ode to My Father.