Bangsan Baking Market
Bangsan Baking Market is a traditional wholesale market where you can find some of the best baking and cooking supplies used by chefs all across Seoul. Over 500 stores supply professional chefs and home cooks with all sorts of baking and cooking items at competitive bulk prices.
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Changsin-dong Toy Wholesale Market
Since 1975, the largest toy market in Korea
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Cheongnyangni Fruits And Vegetables Wholesale Market
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Chungmuro Pet Street
Chungmuro Pet Street is a group of pet stores with dogs and cats, animal hospitals, groomers, and veterinarian offices located east of Chungmuro Station. The collection of markets is located along Toegye-ro street just outside exit 1 of the subway station.
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Daehangno Philippine Market
Daehangno Philippine Market is a unique Sunday street market in Hyehwa-dong that sells groceries, food, snacks, and other products from the Philippines. If you are looking for hard to find products of the Philippines, then this is your one stop spot in all of Seoul. There is nothing else like it in the city.
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Dapsimni Antique Market
Three buildings selling many antiques and other unique items
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Dongdaemun Market
Dongdaemun Market is a large commercial district consisting of over 20 shopping malls and traditional markets, 30,000 shops, 50,000 manufacturers. All of this can be found within a few city blocks.
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Garak Mall
Garak Mall, formerly Garak Market, is a large public wholesale market that sells a large selection of meats, fresh and cheap seafood, and fruits and vegetables. This large market, which opened in 1985, measures in at 543,451 square meters (5,849,657 square feet).
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Geumnam Market
Geumnam Market, located in Geumho-dong near Geumho Station, is a traditional market that dates back to 1949, before the Korean War. Urbanization and redevelopment have changed Geumho-dong for the better and the worse, but the market and surrounding areas remain unchanged. Today, the market maintains a hip, mid-90s vibe, untouched by time and development.
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Gwangjang Market
Gwangjang Market, one of the oldest traditional markets in Seoul, is popular with foreign visitors looking to sample some of the best Korean street foods. If you are looking for an authentic Korean cultural experience, along with some of the best bindaetteok in the city, then look no further.
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Hongdae Free Market
The Hongdae Free Market is a fun and unique arts and crafts market where artists, performers, musicians, and visitors can interact face to face. Artists from all over Korea, and even from other countries, meet here each Saturday from March to November.
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Hwagae-gil Shoes Street
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Hwanghak-dong Flea Market
Wide variety of second-hand goods near Dongdaemun Market
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Jungbu Dried Seafoods Market
Jungbu Dried Seafoods Market is one of the best shopping spots to find large assortments of dried seafood at prices 30% less than other places in Seoul. Dried seafood items sold here include laver (seaweed), anchovies, squid, pollack, and more. The size of the items vary from the very small to large, full fish.
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Junggok Jeil Market
Traditional market selling vegetables, fish, and spices
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Lotte Mart at Seoul Station
Large supermarket and department store
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Majang Meat Market
The Majang Meat Market is one of the largest meat markets in Korea. It is renowned for offering various fresh meats at competitive prices, including beef, pork, chicken, and more. The market is a significant part of Seoul’s culinary scene and is both a wholesale and retail market, supplying meat to restaurants and individual customers alike.
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Namdaemun Market
Namdaemun Market, first opened in 1964, is the largest traditional market in Korea with over 10,000 retailers, vendors, and wholesalers. The market, spread out over many blocks, is a dense maze of stalls, vendors, and restaurants. Nowhere else in Korea can you find such a large collection of interesting and traditional Korean items for sale in one place.
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Noryangjin Fish Market
The Noryangjin Fish Market is a large and vibrant fish and seafood center located in the Noryangjin-dong neighborhood near the 63 Building and Han River. The market is open 24 hours a day but is at its best early in the morning when the market comes alive with amazing and interesting seafood. The official name is Noryangjin Fisheries Wholesale Market.
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Seocho Saturday Flea Market
Seocho Saturday Flea Market is a large street market that runs down the street just outside of Sadang Station. The market occurs every Saturday year round. With thousands of sellers and buyers, Seocho Saturday Flea Market is the largest and oldest flea market in Seoul. If you are looking to buy used goods and products, then you are in the right place. You can find an almost anything your heart desires here at an affordable price.
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Seoul Folk Flea Market
Seoul Folk Flea Market is a vibrant indoor flea market where you can find traditional and modern Korean folk items including clothes, tools, and food. Almost anything you can think of is sold here including new, old, rare, and vintage items that you many never find anywhere else.
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Seoul Jungang Market
Seoul Jungang Market is a traditional market located east of Heunginjimun Gate (Dongdaemun) that specializes in dried fish and other seafood. The market dates back to 1957, a few years after the Korean War.
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Seoul Yangnyeong Oriental Medicine Market
Seoul Yangnyeong Oriental Medicine Market is one of the largest and most unique herbal medicine and ginseng markets in Korea. It dates back to 1960, only a few years after the Korean War. Today, it supplies the country with almost all of its herbal medicine ingredients.
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Starfield COEX Mall
Starfield COEX Mall is a large underground shopping center located south of the Han river in the World Trade Center Seoul complex in the Samseong-dong neighborhood. At over 85,000 square meters (914,000 square feet) it is the largest underground shopping center in Asia.
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Sungin-dong Flea Market
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Techno Mart
Techno Mart is an eight floor shopping mall and marketplace with over 2,000 electronic stores selling every type of electronics, appliances, and gadgets. If you are in Seoul and you need electronics at reasonable prices, then this in your place.
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Times Square
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Tongin Market
Tongin Market is a traditional market located west of Gyeongbokgung Palace and Seochon Village. The compact market features about 80 different shops along a 200 meter covered alleyway. In addition to restaurants and banchan shops, the market also features Korean street food stalls along with vendors selling a range of fresh produce such as vegetables, fruits, fish, and meat.
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Yangjae Flower Market
Yangjae Flower Market is your one stop shop if you are looking for anything to do with gardening including plants, flowers, trees, orchids, herbs and soil. The market opened in June 1991 and at first only sold cut flowers.
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Yeongcheon Market
Yeongcheon Market is a small traditional market located between Seodaemun Station and Dongnimmun Station in Seodaemun-gu. This single alley covered market with about 130 stores, established in the 1960s, is popular for its street foods, fresh produce, fruits, meats, seafood, toys, shoes, and more.
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Yeongdeungpo Market
Large, covered tradition market south of the Han River
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Yongsan Electronics Market
Yongsan Electronics Market is a collection of over 5,000 electronics and office equipment markets and stores spread across 20 buildings. If it has to do with technology, then odds you will find it here at one of the nearly thousands of independent stores in the area.
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Yongsan Flea Market
Yongsan Flea Market is a weekend flea market specializing in used and second hand computer and electronic supplies and accessories at affordable prices. If you are looking for hard to find used or discontinued electronics items, then start your search here.
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Last Updated on Feb 29, 2024