Gyeongdong Market

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Gyeongdong Market
Korean name
Hangul 경동시장 Hanja 京東市場 Revised Romanization Gyeongdong sijang McCune-Reischauer Kyongtong sichang

Gyeongdong Market or Kyungdong Market, located in the 1035 Jaegi-dong area of Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, is one of the largest herbal medicine and ginseng market of South Korea.^[1] 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 product and fish in about 300,000 square meters, about five times the size of the Seoul Sangam World Cup Stadium.^[2]

It is served by Seoul Subway's Dongdaemun-gu, Jungnang-gu, Jaegi-dong Station on Line 1.

Contents 1 Gallery 2 See also 3 References 4 External links

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[edit] See also

• Namdaemun Market

[edit] References

• Gyeong dong Oriental Medicine Market (English). Asiarooms.com. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.
• Traditional markets / specialty markets (English). Korean Cultural Center in Australia. Retrieved on 2008-05-05.

[edit] External links

• (Korean) Official site of the Gyeongdong Market