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Step out of Jegi-dong Station in Dongdaemun-gu and the smell of medicinal herbs greets you before anything else, from lanes stacked with sacks of ginseng, liquorice, jujubes and goji berries. Gyeongdong Market, opened in 1960, is one of Se…
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If you want to eat among locals rather than tour groups in Gyeongju, head to Seongdong Market. Gyeongju's largest traditional market sits at the Wonhwa-ro entrance opposite the old Gyeongju Station and has traded on this spot since 1971. B…
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Gwangjang Market is Seoul's best-known traditional market, founded by Korean merchants in the early 1900s. Under its covered lanes, the smell of frying mung bean pancakes and customers perched on stall benches fill the centre, while shops…
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Stretching along the Gwangjucheon stream, Yangdong Market is counted as the largest traditional market in the Honam region. From fruit and vegetables to ancestral-rite foods, wedding gift platters and fermented skate, locals say there is n…
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Right next to Sungnyemun Gate, about 10,000 shops are crammed into a maze of alleys. Namdaemun Market traces its origins to 1414, when the royal court built shops near the gate and leased them to merchants, making it Seoul's best-known tra…
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Climbing from the hillside behind Myeong-dong to just below the summit of Namsan in a little over three minutes, this is Korea's first passenger cable car. It opened on 12 May 1962 and has run on the same line above central Seoul for more…
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South of the Han River, just east of the 63 Building, Noryangjin Fish Market is the largest seafood wholesale market in inland Korea. Some 250–300 tonnes of seafood change hands every day, and auctions begin at 1 a.m. You stroll between th…
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Walk past fabric halls piled high with bolts of cloth, wander into alleys of small food stalls, and after dark the road outside fills with the lights of street stalls. Seomun Market is Daegu's largest traditional market, with more than 4,0…
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Office workers on their way home, local pensioners and travellers sit side by side, trousers rolled up and feet in the water. The Yuseong Hot Spring Foot Spa is an open-air foot bath in a park at the heart of Daejeon's Yuseong spa district…
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Head north from central Busan to the foot of Geumjeongsan and you reach a neighbourhood where signs for hot springs hang all along the streets. Dongnae Hot Spring has been known since the Silla period and is one of the oldest hot springs i…
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Step out of Exit 3 of Dongmyo Station and you are already in the Dongmyo Flea Market, often called the biggest flea market in Seoul. Its streets overflow with second-hand goods of every kind, from heaps of used clothes on the pavement to f…
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Narrow lanes hung with clothes and bags branch off endlessly under the awnings, and at every corner a food stall has set out low stools. Gukje Market kept Busan's people fed and clothed through liberation and the Korean War, and today it i…
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Jagalchi Market stretches along the waterfront of Busan's South Port, between Nampo-dong and Chungmu-dong in Jung-gu. Selling live and fresh fish, shellfish and dried seafood, it is counted among Korea's largest seafood markets and has bec…
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Under the arcade roof in the middle of old Seogwipo, an artificial stream with fish and water plants runs down the centre of the market lane. Seogwipo Maeil Olle Market is the largest and oldest permanent market in Seogwipo, where tangerin…
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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…