Gamcheon Culture Village

This guide to Gamcheon Culture Village in Busan starts with Korean War refugees stacking wooden shacks up a steep hillside, and jumps to 2009, when forty local artists and four architects won a government contest to turn the fading district into art on a shoestring budget. You'll hear how a slum nicknamed Dreaming of Machu Picchu in Busan filled with painted walls, carved stairwells and small galleries, and follow what happened as visitors began arriving by the millions. It traces a district still working out who benefits from its own transformation.