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The 29th Busan Sea Festival will take place August 1–3 at Dadaepo Beach, featuring fireworks, music programs, night markets, and enhanced crowd control measures to manage growing attendance.
Despite technical and financial setbacks in a previous underground line, Busan’s Hadan–Noksan subway repeats the same design assumptions.
Busan maintains one of Korea’s largest water networks, but its aging underground pipes are exposing gaps in maintenance, monitoring, and funding.
As climate impacts accelerate, Busan invests in next-gen marine stewardship with a national youth forum on ocean sustainability.
The Busan Opera House was meant to anchor a waterfront cultural revival. Now, it stands half-built and over-budget, exposing the gap between vision and governance.
Busan has been selected as the World Design Capital for 2028, joining a shortlist of global cities recognized for integrating design into urban policy.
More than 1,500 researchers from 45 countries are meeting this week in Busan for BACO-25, a landmark assembly of Earth system scientists focused on the intensifying climate crisis.
While developers tout “premium units” and local media cheer on the crowds, more than 5,000 unsold homes sit vacant—and thousands of residents are quietly leaving.
On September 21, more than 3,000 riders will take part in the first Seven Bridges Tour: Riding in Busan—a non-competitive event.
The City of Busan has selected a consortium led by HJ Heavy Industries as the preferred bidder for the modernization of the Busan Cooperative Fish Market.
Busan has been selected to host the 2028 World Championship of Magic, following a decisive vote by the Fédération Internationale des Sociétés Magiques (FISM). The event will bring over 3,000 magicians and 200,000 visitors to the city in July 2028.
The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries has confirmed its full relocation to Dong-gu, Busan, marking the return of central government presence to the city’s original administrative district.
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