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충주시
Suanbo, south of Chungju, is a spa village where weakly alkaline water at around 53°C rises from 250 m underground. The springs have a long history: they appear in Goryeo-era records, and King Taejo, founder of the Joseon dynasty, is said…
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안동시
Andong Gu Market sits in the middle of Andong's old town, a five-minute walk from Taesamyo Shrine and Ungbu Park, and it is the oldest market in the city. Andong jjimdak – chicken braised in a soy-based sauce with vegetables and glass nood…
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안성시
More than 2,000 earthenware crocks lined up against a backdrop of pine trees: even in photos, the sight makes you stop. Seoil Farm in Iljuk-myeon, Anseong, is a traditional jang farm where Korean soybeans are turned into meju and then into…
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횡성군
Anheung-myeon in Hoengseong County, Gangwon Province, is a township known across Korea for one thing: steamed buns. Shops selling Anheung jjinppang, buns leavened with makgeolli rice wine, filled with homemade red bean paste and shaped by…
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양양군
Where the Seoraksan and Odaesan mountains meet, in the middle of Yangyang-eup in Gangwon Province, Yangyang Traditional Market comes fully alive on dates ending in 4 and 9, when one of the biggest five-day markets on the northern east coas…
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울산
Eonyang Alps Market is a traditional market in Eonyang-eup, Ulju-gun, Ulsan, first held in 1915 and still going more than a century later. It is open every day, but on market days – dates ending in 2 and 7 – extra stalls fill the arcade an…
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울산
In the heart of Ulsan's old town, in Seongnam-dong and Okgyo-dong, Jung-gu, Ulsan Jungang Traditional Market opened in 1922 as Okgyo Market. It has stayed on the same site for more than a century, supplying local families with everything t…
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서울특별시
When the sun goes down, the lanes of Euljiro 3-ga fill with plastic tables and beer glasses. This is the alley that started nomaek: grilled nogari (dried young pollack) dipped in red pepper paste, washed down with draught beer. By day the…
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의정부시
This short street is the place to find out, over a single meal, how budae-jjigae (army stew), a pot of ham, sausage and kimchi, became the signature dish of a whole city. The restaurants cluster around Hoguk-ro 1309beon-gil, next to the si…
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제주시
Ten minutes or so by car from Jeju Airport, beside the Sanjicheon stream in old Jeju City, lies Jeju's largest and oldest permanent traditional market. Dongmun Traditional Market packs its covered lanes with silver hairtail and red tilefis…
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서귀포시
The wide grasslands of Gasi-ri, in the uplands of eastern Jeju, were once home to Gapmajang, the Joseon-era ranch where the state raised only its very best horses. Jeju Horse Park was created by the village itself on this old ranch land. B…
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청주시
In central Cheongju, next to a junction where six roads meet, is Yukgeori Market – the name simply means "six-way crossroads market". Covered alleys run in a grid, and early each morning farmers from the surrounding countryside lay out veg…
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포항시
Cheongha Market is a country five-day market in the township of Cheongha-myeon, Buk-gu, Pohang. In 2021 the tvN drama Hometown Cha-Cha-Cha turned it into the market of the fictional seaside village of Gongjin, and a "Gongjin Market" sign w…
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대구
East of Daegu Station, along the banks of the Sincheon stream, a produce market, a flower market, streets of furniture and kitchenware and a toy alley all run into one another. Locals simply call the whole cluster of nine markets Chilseong…
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하동군
On a hillside above the wide Akyang plain in Hadong, at the foot of Jirisan, stands a house that first existed only in a novel. Choi Champandaek recreates the family home of Choi Seo-hui, heroine of Park Kyung-ni's epic novel Toji (The Lan…
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하동군
Where the Seomjingang River meets the Hwagaecheon stream, with Hadong in Gyeongsang Province on one bank and Gurye in Jeolla Province on the other, sits Hwagae Market. For generations people from the two regions crossed here to trade goods…
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군위군
At the edge of the fields, beneath a low hill, stands an old tile-roofed house ringed by a stone wall. This is the home of Hyewon (Kim Tae-ri) in the film Little Forest (2018), where she spends four seasons after leaving city life behind.…