Busan

Busan is on the coast, has lots of music venues, good restaurants, a subway system to easily get you from one part of the city to the next, and only 3.5 hours away from Gwangju so it's a fun weekend get away.

This boy on the beach was practicing his Taekwondo.

A little jam time.

Public bike rentals, use a credit card and it's yours for the taking.

Not only did we find delicious Indian food, we found dairy free coconut milk ice cream, and had sake. The waiter at the sake bar brought over a selection of sake cups to choose from, that was a tough decision. We sat at a corner table in the second floor window, where we had a great view of the street below and watched as Koreans (who typically drink too much too fast) stumbled out of bars and had all sorts of comic stumblings and swayings.

Unfortunately black out drunk is something you see a lot of here, there's even a blog devoted to photos of Koreans passed out in awkward places (it's called "black out korea" if you want the proof). I see it every week, somebody slumped in a planter, curled up on a bus bench, or passed out at the corner store's picnic table. I won't go into detail about the vomit everywhere, but I think that's a big motivation for removing shoes when you enter a building.