City Talk
Busan, South Korea
Busan, a major port, is South Korea’s second largest city. With a major harbour and an excellent subway system, the city’s infrastructure can handle major events with ease while the eye-catching Busan Exhibition and Convention Centre (BEXCO) is a well recongised venue.
MICE Venues
Busan has a variety of venues to support MICE such as BEXCO, Sport facilities that can host large scale events for more than 100 people and some 300 special venues including an aquarium, yacht, cruises, gallery and Nurimaru APEC house (see description below).
Bexco
It is one of the largest exhibition and convention centres with 8 floors. It has hosted the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea-Japan and 2005 APEC Summit. Along with an affordable hotel and the world’s largest departmental store located conveniently across the centre, it offers a spacious exhibition hall equivalent to the size of 3 football fields and is fitted with advanced equipment.
Support for MICE planners
The Busan Convention and Visitors Bureau provides consulting services for conference preparation, co-marketing activities to attract delegates, site-inspection for decision makers, financial support for holding MICE events, coordinating services for selecting venues, hotels and pre- and post-tour programmes.
Nurimaru Apec House
The name Nurimaru APEC House is created by combining the Korean words nuri (world) and maru (summit). Located on the Dongbaekseom Island, it is known for its natural landscape and was also the host centre for the 2005 APEC Summit.
Accommodation options
Busan has dozens of accommodation options around the venue, from five star hotels like The Westin Chousan, Haeundae Grand Hotel, Novotel Ambassador, etc., to youth hostels and condominiums. There are more than 52,000 guest rooms in Busan and among them 5,000 guest rooms are within 5-minutes from convention centre.
Post-event activities
Busan offers a wide variety of unique tour programs including exotic temples, ceramic-making programs, refreshing hot springs, cultural heritage tours, and many technical tours. Delegates can also experience the 5,000-year-old Korean heritage of Gyeongju, located an hour away from Busan by car.
Unique Green Theme Activities Jeju Island
Here banquet halls are being offered in a spirited garden that offers a brick wall made of volcanic stones, beautiful artificial waterfalls, serene ponds with colourful carps, Bonsai garden space where one can take photo shots. The place can accommodate 300 people for an outdoor banquet.
Natural Dyeing
This experience offers a chance to make colorants by boiling wild medicinal herbs and natural ingredients to use in dyeing fabrics. For this, the participants divide themselves into different groups where by each group selects its own colour and dye, after which they rinse the fabrics together to enhance the teamwork and bonding.
For Indian travellers
Indian speciality restaurants are available in Seoul and Busan to cater to the Indian audience. Besides this, Indians can also take rail trips between Seoul and Busan since it is the main showpiece of Korean rail technology, a high speed train known as KTX that offers the comfort of an airline at a much lower price and covers the distance of 445 km in just 2 hours and 45 minutes.
Must Visit Jeju
Known as ‘Hawai of the Orient’, Jeju island is also a UNESCO natural heritage site which offers lots of natural scenery and breath-taking landscapes.