[Korea Seoul Travel] Korean Street food Heaven & Unique Shopping :: Gwangjang Market (광장시장)

[Korea Seoul Travel]  Korean Street food Heaven 

& Unique Shopping :: 

Gwangjang Market (광장시장)

call center: +82-2-1330 (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
• For more info: +82-2-2267-0291~5 +82-2-2267-0291~5 +82-2-2272-0091 
www.kwangjangmarket.co.kr 


you are hit by a sudden hunger, visit the Gwangjang Market(광장시장). This is a place where Seoul citizens meet up with close acquaintances for bindaetteok (fritter of ground mung beans, meat, and bean sprouts) and makgeolli rice wine. It is a large-scale market where visitors can feel the traditional Korean ambiance.

The market deals with a variety of items, ranging from clothes, fabric, and bedding to red ginseng, vegetables, and seafood. As such, it is fun for visitors to just walk around and browse. For clothes, you will find womenswear and menswear in modern styles as well as traditional hanbok costumes of different colors and designs. You may also find stores selling traditional wedding gifts. These are called pyebaek stores (pyebaek collectively refers to the food sent by the bride to the groom’s parents before the wedding). The pyebaek box contains traditional food like hangwa traditional cookies, dried meat, and jujube. You might also see people at work making the food inside the stores.

Red ginseng, a specialty product of Korea, is popular among foreign tourists for its beneficial effect on health. You will find red ginseng preserved in honey (40,000 won and up), red ginseng capsules (50,000-120,000 won), and teas (around 10,000 won) offered at wholesale prices.

But the bestselling item in Gwangjang Market is the food. In the center of the market, there are food stalls selling bindaetteok and sundae (Korean black pudding with glass noodles, meat, tofu, and vegetables stuffed inside a casing of pig intestine), jokbal (braised pork trotters), teokbokki (rice cakes smothered in a spicy red chili sauce), gimbap (Korean rice rolls), and janchi-guksu (thin noodles served in hot anchovy-based broth). In the evening, yellow lights brighten the market, which is bustling with people enjoying mung bean fritters with makgeolli.

• Go to Gwangjang Market
• ☞ Hours: Stores 09:00 – 18:00 (Hours may vary by store), Restaurants 09:00 – 19:00 (open 365 days a year)
• ☞ Transportation: In front of exit 8 of Jongno 5-ga Station (Line 1), 100m walk from exit 4 of Euljiro 4-ga Station (Line 1)
• ☞ Major items: Custom-tailored hanbok, clothes, fabric, bedding, ancestral ceremonial items, salted seafood, red ginseng, fruits and vegetables, bindaetteok (4,000 won), gimbap, teokbokki, janchi guksu (2,000-3,000 won)
• ☞ Homepage: http://www.kwangjangmarket.co.kr/
• ☞ 1330 tt call center: +82-2-1330 (Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
• ☞ Nearby attractions: Dongdaemun Shopping Complex    -    Info : http://english.visitkorea.or.kr  -

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