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Forty Steps Cultural Tourism Theme Street

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Forty Steps Cultural Tourism Theme Street is the street stretched from Kookmin Bank Jungang-dong Branch through the Forty Steps to Palsung Tourism Agency and Forty Steps.
The Forty Steps Cultural Tourism Theme Street, which has joys and sorrows of in the 1950's through 1960's life like a big nostalgia during the hard times, was formed as a new tourist attraction of Busan station influence with the same step to Kyoungbu Korea Train Express, and 4 squares like the Forty Steps Square, a Road Crossing Plaza, a Conch Stairs, a First Arrival Plaza etc. as fun places were completed. Some railroads, traffic lights, marble roads, granite crossbeams, the Maronie street trees, some electric poles were installed to feel past times with the theme of old Busan station building, railroads, seaway as a symbol of Busan harbor as well as Busan Station.

Especially, "Mother's heart" portrays as a mother who brought up her children with her sacrifice and love in her hard life during the refugee time, "Father's rest" portrays took a rest for the moment after hard laboring work for his family, "A child carrying a water jar on her head" expressed the girl who helped house chore kindly although she was too young to work, "A man fried rice with a pop" is well drawn the man who fried some crops at a pop with good smell when there were almost nothing to eat, "The person playing the accordion" depicts the man who played his accordion as a romanticist during that times like adversity, "MBC symbol formative art" represents the spot where the Korean First commercial broadcasting was sent out etc., so there are many formative arts reappearing past times and life. And these thing make many visitors here excite their nostalgia at that time.

 

 
 
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