In January 2021, the mayor of Salla, a small town in northern Finland, launched a tongue-in-cheek bid for the 2032 Summer Olympics to raise awareness of climate change and the threat it poses to Salla's cold-dependent ecosystem. Which South Korean port city, the country's second-largest, also considered bidding?

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Busan. Both Busan and Salla were linked to the 2032 Summer Olympics bidding process. Busan considered a formal bid, while Salla's mayor launched a tongue-in-cheek bid to highlight the climate threat to its ecosystem.