SEALIFE Busan Aquarium
Underground aquarium with an eighty-metre ocean tunnel, coral tank mermaid show, sharks, penguins and otters.
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This guide to SEALIFE Busan Aquarium follows a question that reaches back before the tank ever filled with water on Haeundae Beach: why local fishing families never launched a boat without pleading first with Yongwang, the Dragon King said to command the tides. It traces the rituals and shrines built to keep him satisfied, then carries that old reverence down to level minus three, where a performer holds her breath inside a coral tank several times a day. Along the way it draws a line to Jeju's haenyeo, free-diving women who have worked the sea without tanks since the 1600s. Watch the mermaid show and notice which parts of it feel borrowed, and which feel local.
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