Gyeongdong Market
경동시장
Traditional market · Dongdaemun-gu
Address: 서울 동대문구 고산자로36길 3
Background
Gyeongdong Market, sometimes Kyungdong Market, located in Dongdaemun District, Seoul, is one of the largest herbal medicine and ginseng markets of South Korea. Since its establishment in 1960, the market supplies 70 percent of the nation's herbal medicine ingredients and has more than 1,000 related shops and oriental medicine clinics in the area. Gyeongdong Market also serves as a wholesale and retail markets selling agricultural products and fish in about 300,000 square meters, about five times the size of the Seoul Sangam World Cup Stadium.
It is served by Seoul Subway's Jegi-dong Station on Line 1.
From Wikipedia: Gyeongdong Market, opening section, lightly shortened. CC BY-SA 4.0
On these walks
- Gyeongdong Market and the Herb Quarter: Seoul's biggest market for ginseng, herbs and farm produce, open since the 1960s. On the top floor a former cinema (1960s) is now a large café, with tiered seats facing a wall of windows.