Yeongdo Bridge
Colonial-era bascule bridge whose lifted deck once let ships pass, still raised for crowds on Saturdays.
This guide to Yeongdo Bridge in Busan starts with the smell of frying fish cake drifting from carts at its foot and traces it back to Korea's first drawbridge, opened in 1934 to link the port to Yeongdo island and once famous for the ritual of its deck swinging skyward for passing ships. It follows the refugees who crowded into this port during the country's hardest years and gathered near Bongnae Market, where scarcity pushed someone to start experimenting with scraps of fish. Stand at the foot of the bridge, where the carts still line the waterfront, to catch the same smell the guide opens with.
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