also: ふざん
noun
Busan; Pusan
A major port city in South Korea. The spelling 釜山 is standard; the reading プサン is the most common Japanese pronunciation.
釜山は韓国第二の都市です。
Busan is the second largest city in South Korea.
来月、プサンへ旅行に行く予定です。
I plan to travel to Busan next month.
Katakana spelling, common in modern Japanese for foreign place names.
Hiragana spelling; rarely used in practice, but included as a search variant.
From Korean 부산 (Busan). The kanji 釜山 are ateji based on the Korean hanja 釜山.