OLD BOOK ALLEY

One of our favorite places in Busan is Bosudong, i.e. "Old Book Alley". It's a narrow alley at the base of a mountain, densely packed with used bookstores whose volumes (both Korean and English) are sometimes stacked waist-deep and spilling out into the street. Needless to say, Joe can spend hours debating between a beat-up copy of Aesop's Fables or a study on the principles of language learning, and I'm pretty happy with the old editions of National Geographic. But mostly we go because it's one of the few spots in Busan with a strong sense of place--full of familiar comforts (coffee, doughnuts, books) but unlike anywhere we've been before.