Gyeongdong Market | |
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Korean name | |
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Hangul | 경동시장 |
Hanja | 京東市場 |
Revised Romanization | Gyeongdong Sijang |
McCune–Reischauer | Kyŏngdong Sijang |
Gyeongdong Market (Korean: 경동시장), sometimesKyungdong Market, located inDongdaemun District,Seoul, is one of the largestherbal medicine andginseng markets 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 awholesale andretail markets selling agricultural products and fish in about 300,000 square meters, about five times the size of the Seoul Sangam World Cup Stadium.[2]
It is served bySeoul Subway'sJegi-dong Station onLine 1.
37°34′52″N127°02′13″E / 37.581°N 127.037°E /37.581; 127.037
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