Busan (kor)

Busan

Busan ranks 227th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Königsberg, Omaha, Nebraska, and Leeds. Memorable people born in Busan include Kim Tu-bong, Charles J. Pedersen, and Heo Jeong. Busan has been the birth place of many actors, and singers. Busan is located in South Korea.

Busan, officially Busan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's second most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million inhabitants as of 2024. Formerly romanized as Pusan, it is the economic, cultural and educational center of southeastern South Korea, with its port being South Korea's busiest and the sixth-busiest in the world. The surrounding "Southeastern Maritime Industrial Region" is South Korea's largest industrial area. The large volumes of port traffic and urban population in excess of 1 million make Busan a Large-Port metropolis using the Southampton System of Port-City classification. As of 2019, Busan Port is the primary port in Korea and the world's sixth-largest container port. Read more on Wikipedia