Editing Busan (section)

==Names==
The name "Busan" is the [[Revised Romanization of Korean|Revised Romanization]] of the city's Korean name since the late 15th century.<ref>{{cite web |title=The origin of the name Busan |url=http://www.busan.go.kr/04ocean/0405history/01_01.jsp |publisher=Busan City |access-date=4 January 2012 |language=ko |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120503201720/http://busan.go.kr/04ocean/0405history/01_01.jsp |archive-date=3 May 2012}}</ref> It officially replaced the earlier [[McCune–Reischauer]] romanization ''Pusan'' in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1007276&fid=3437&c=south_korea |title=Pusan: South Korea |work=Geographical Names |access-date=2011-08-15 |archive-date=2012-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406005945/http://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1007276&fid=3437&c=south_korea |url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|This name is also sometimes written as "Pusan City" (''Pusan-si'')<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1007290&fid=3441&c=south_korea |title=Pusan-si: South Korea |work=Geographical Names |access-date=2011-08-15 |archive-date=2012-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406010048/http://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1007290&fid=3441&c=south_korea |url-status=live}}</ref> and "Pusan Directly-Administered City" (''Busan-jikhalsi''<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1007284&fid=3441&c=south_korea |title=Pusan-jikhalsi: South Korea |work=Geographical Names |access-date=2011-08-15 |archive-date=2012-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406010039/http://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1007284&fid=3441&c=south_korea |url-status=live}}</ref> or ''Pusan-chikhalsi'').<ref>{{cite web |url=http://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1007279&fid=3420&c=south_korea |title=Pusan-chikhalsi: South Korea |work=Geographical Names |access-date=2011-08-15 |archive-date=2012-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406010033/http://geographic.org/geographic_names/name.php?uni=-1007279&fid=3420&c=south_korea |url-status=live}}</ref>}} During the [[Korea under Japanese rule|Japanese colonial period]], the Japanese reading of the city's name was "Fuzan".

The name {{lang|ko|釜山}} (now written {{lang|ko|부산}} using the [[hangul|Korean alphabet]]) is [[Sino-Korean vocabulary|Sino-Korean]] for "Cauldron Mountain", believed to be a former name of Mt{{nbsp}}Hwangnyeong ({{Korean|hangul=황령산|hanja=荒嶺山|rr=Hwangnyeongsan}}) west of the city center. The area's ancient state Mt.{{nbsp}}Geochil ({{Korean|hangul=거칠산국|hanja=居柒山國|rr=Geochilsan-guk|labels=no}}, "Rough-Mountain Land") is similarly thought to refer to the same mountain, which towers over the town's harbor on the Suyeong (the later Silla district of Geochilsan-gun was renamed [[Dongnae]] in 757).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.kookje.co.kr/news2011/asp/newsbody.asp?code=0200&key=20120425.22002211106 |script-title=ko:부산항선 목메어 불러봐도 'Pusan' |website=[[The Kookje Daily News]] |access-date=2019-05-31 |archive-date=2019-05-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190531050034/http://www.kookje.co.kr/news2011/asp/newsbody.asp%3Fcode%3D0200%26key%3D20120425.22002211106 |url-status=live}}</ref>