Ulsan celebrated its whaling heritage at the Annual Whale Festival this weekend, where many foreigners were competing in teams in the rowing competition. We have had two weekends of practice and now was the final race day. Unfortunately, the heats started from 9am and we had a 90 min bus ride from Daegu to get to the Taewha River. I had tried getting the organizers to move the start time as many of us were travelling from out of town. The best they could do was p...

Ulsan is a coastal city on the southeast famous for its whaling heritage. There is an annual whale festival, held this year at the end of april, and you can take sightseeing trips out to see real whales in the ocean. As part of this years whale festival there will be a competition where teams can compete in rowing boats. I joined with two friends from Daegu and this weekend was our first practice. Last year we had taken an express bus for 11,000w from Daegu and t...

This weekend four of us headed to the Ulsan Whale Festival. Ulsan is on the coast just north of Busan and east of Gyeongju. They have opened a new high speed KTX station in Uslan which would have got us there in 45 mins instead of the 90 min bus. Originally I planned on taking the train until I found out the station is well outside town.The Ulsan Tourist info office (052-1330) advised there were free shuttle buses from the bus terminal and if we came by train we ...