
40 Steps
Local name: 40-step Culture & Tourism Theme Street / 40계단 문화관광테마거리
This point establishes the route's vertical axis: the port below, refugee housing above.
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Local name: 40-step Culture & Tourism Theme Street / 40계단 문화관광테마거리
This point establishes the route's vertical axis: the port below, refugee housing above.
This point establishes the route's vertical axis: the port below, refugee housing above.
Here you will learn why a commercial street in Nampo was chosen for the first film festival.
This stop shifts from the history of the refugee-covered slope to the history of the summit, where a colonial shrine disappeared after liberation.
The final stop will connect the fishing reefs with a new walking loop above the water.
This stop explains why Camellia Island had to be replanted with camellias.
This short stretch will show how coastal protection changed an ambitious tourism plan.
The market rows explain how people without their former jobs and connections rebuilt their lives in Busan.
Here you will see why a broad strip of sand requires constant engineering work.
The finale by the water returns to the people who began trading with a basin of fish on the reclaimed shore.
The island’s old name leads the story from the modern waterfront to the medieval struggle between two rulers.
The preserved hall will show how the agreement made at the round table was tested after the summit.
Here you will understand why this green hill cannot be seen as a preserved empty corner of the old city.
Here it will become clear how residents turned the flow of tourists into a shared village budget.
A former home will connect vacant buildings with the first alley route.
The statue links an invented fairy tale, family memory, and the trace of a typhoon.
The collection restores to the bright hillside the memory of its first families and their everyday lives.
The bay will show what stood on the site of the marina and towers before reclamation.
The sculpture is needed to distinguish the artist’s intention from the familiar photo spot.
Here it will become clear how several vacant rooms changed the purpose of an old residential slope.
The final stop will show how jobs appeared here not only in souvenir retail.
The carving will explain how an official's literary name became the name of the entire coast.
The stop will link public works after the financial crisis with the passage between the village and the shore.
Here, the former break in the walking path will turn out to be a matter of accessibility and emergency access.
The local name restores the tourist staircase's former everyday meaning.
The street shows how the rules of a resettlement community can still be read in the layout of the hillside.
The vacant house becomes the starting point for a story about choosing between a safe career and defending a person.