Major cities in

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typically have several traditional

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, each with vendors selling a wide variety of goods including fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, breads, clothing,

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s, souvenirs, and Korean traditional medicinal items. The Korean word for market is ''sijang'' ) and traditional street markets are called ''jaerae sijang'' ) or ''jeontong sijang'' (). The market space commonly includes permanent restaurants, pop-up restaurants and food stalls (''

pojangmacha ''Pojangmacha'' (포장마차) is form of commercial establishment based out of a small tent (sometimes on wheels) or street stall found in South Korea. These establishment sell popular street foods, such as ''hotteok'', ''gimbap'', ''tteokbokki ...

'', ) that sell traditional

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and

street food Street food is ready-to-eat food or drinks sold by a hawker, or vendor, in a street or at other public places, such as markets or fairs. It is often sold from a portable food booth, food cart, or food truck and is meant for immediate consumption ...

. The Small Enterprise and Market Service (; previously the ''Agency for Traditional Market Administration'') is responsible for improving the condition of the country's traditional markets with the goal of developing them into prominent tourist attractions.

Markets in South Korea

The following is a list of

retail Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and t ...

and

wholesale Wholesaling or distributing is the sale of goods or merchandise to retailers; to industrial, commercial, institutional or other professional business users; or to other wholesalers (wholesale businesses) and related subordinated services. In ...

markets in South Korea. The list can contain many different types of markets including street markets,

fish markets A fish market is a marketplace for selling fish and fish products. It can be dedicated to wholesale trade between Fisherman, fishermen and fish merchants, or to the sale of seafood to individual consumers, or to both. Retail fish markets, a type ...

farmers' markets A farmers' market (or farmers market according to the AP stylebook, also farmer's market in the Cambridge Dictionary) is a physical retail marketplace intended to sell foods directly by farmers to consumers. Farmers' markets may be indoors or ...

flea markets A flea market (or swap meet) is a type of street market that provides space for vendors to sell previously-owned (second-hand) goods. This type of market is often seasonal. However, in recent years there has been the development of 'formal' ...

, and

antique An antique ( la, antiquus; 'old', 'ancient') is an item perceived as having value because of its aesthetic or historical significance, and often defined as at least 100 years old (or some other limit), although the term is often used loosely ...

markets.

References

External links

Official tourist information website about South Korea's traditional markets

''Korean Culture and Information Service'' article on South Korea's traditional markets

Official website of the market division of the ''Small Enterprise and Market Service''
{{Economy of South Korea Retail markets in South Korea

Markets Market is a term used to describe concepts such as: * Market (economics), system in which parties engage in transactions according to supply and demand * Market economy *Marketplace, a physical marketplace or public market Geography *Märket, a ...

Markets in South Korea

See also

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