This year's Asia Pacific Trade Cooperation meeting was hosted in my city of residence, Busan. It was a well-known fact that President George W. Bush was making an appearance at the talks, which made many people nervous of possible terror attacks. This resulted in the closure of most public schools and hogwans. Since we had the day off, Drew, Zach, and I made the trip down to the APEC meeting locations to visit the madness.
Zach and Drew standing beside the Bexco building where a lot of APEC "stuff" was going on.
Armed guards lined all the streets around the building. You can even see people on the top of that building.
Here is a large group of people in riot gear. They were expecting large riots. We didn't see any violence whatsoever.
This subway station was completly shut down.
One of the locations hosting meetings was near Haeundae Beach. We expected to see more armed guards or protestors. Instead, we found a beautiful empty beach and a man making a sand dragon.
The waters were teaming with police ships. Far off in the distance are some military ships.
The Gwangan bridge is beautiful at night.
It was impressive to see how many armed guards were on call for this event. I later read that there were some protests, but we missed that. We didn't get to see George Bush, or any of the other leaders. Security was too tight as you can see.
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