서면교차로 (서면로터리)

About this audio guide

This guide to the crossroads at Seomyeon in Busan opens on a glowing karaoke sign in a back alley, where gang members once dragged out a rival who had crossed the wrong crew. It traces one of South Korea's longest-running turf wars, fought since the 1970s between the Chilsung-pa and Shin Twentieth Century-pa gangs over these same nightlife blocks, and the 1993 killing that turned their feud into the basis for the hit film Friend. Along the way it covers how that film reshaped Busan's public image and made the city's thick dialect famous nationwide.