Photo: pieonane on Pixabay / CC0Yeosu is a port city on Korea's south coast, built around a harbour that Admiral Yi Sun-sin commanded in the 1590s. Its waterfront was rebuilt for Expo 2012, and the cruise berth sits inside that site, with the Sky Tower and the KTX terminus beside it. Across the Dolsan Bridge lies Dolsan island, with the cable car's far station at its near end and Hyangiram at its far tip.
Korea has one undefeated admiral, and this was his harbour. The war fleet sailed from here and the turtle ship was built here. The hall that marks the spot has just come back from a ten-year rebuild.
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A monk is said to have seen the goddess of mercy here in 644. Thirteen centuries later a fire took the main hall in a night. The sunrise, which is the reason people come, was not affected.
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For three months in 2012 a fishing port at the end of a railway line hosted a World Expo. The crowds left, the pavilions came down, and the quay built for the show is now where cruise ships tie up.
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The city publishes a list of ten dishes and calls one of them a rice thief. The rest of the list is a calendar of what the boats bring in, and your call date decides which page you are on.
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