Current time in Busan, South Korea
The current local time in Busan is shown below. Busan observes KST.
What's the daylight saving status?
Busan does not observe daylight saving time. The local offset is fixed year-round.
When are sunrise & sunset today?
What are the timezone facts?
- Timezone
- Asia/Seoul
- Standard abbreviation
- KST
- Observes daylight saving
- No
- Country
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- Business hours
- 09:00 – 17:00 local
What's the timezone history of Busan?
Busan uses Korea Standard Time at UTC+9, the same single offset used across the entire country. South Korea adopted the +9 zone in 1961, having previously used +8:30 briefly in the 1950s. The country last operated daylight saving during the 1988 Seoul Olympics and has not reintroduced it. Busan's longitude around 129 degrees east places wall time roughly 35 minutes ahead of mean solar noon, the most pronounced solar-civil time gap among South Korea's major cities and exceeding that of Tokyo despite shared offset.
What are the working hours in Busan?
The port, shipbuilding (Hyundai Heavy Industries at nearby Ulsan), film (the Busan International Film Festival in October), and a growing financial sector anchor employment. Office hours run 09:00 to 18:00 with one-hour lunch breaks, though longer days remain common in port logistics and shipbuilding shifts. The Lunar New Year (Seollal) in late January or February and Chuseok in September close most businesses for three to five days. The Busan International Film Festival's first week in October is the largest local calendar event.
Where is Busan?
Busan occupies the south-eastern tip of the Korean peninsula, the country's second-largest metropolitan area and its principal seaport. The city proper holds around 3.3 million residents and the wider Busan-Ulsan-Gimhae metropolitan region reaches roughly 4.7 million. The port handles around 75 percent of South Korea's container traffic, ranking among the world's busiest. The city's coastline alternates between protected harbours and sandy beaches, with Haeundae the largest urban beach. Mountainous terrain inland constrains development into a series of valleys.