Ganseong Traditional Market
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Getting there · Parking
On market days, lots near the market fill up quickly. Fees are the registered base rates and may have changed. Parking data: Public Data Portal, National Parking Lot Standard Data.
📞 Market contact 033-682-5462
Upcoming market days
Market days from public data (as of 2025-11-10). Dates are calculated, so please double-check before you go.
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About the market
- History
- Opened in 1965.
- Type
- A permanent market open every day, with an extra open-air market on dates ending in 2·7.
- Shops
- About 66 permanent shops (not counting market-day stalls)
- What's sold
- Agricultural products, Livestock products, Seafood, Processed foods, Clothing, Shoes, Household goods, Restaurants, Local services
- Facilities
- Parking: yes · Public restroom: yes
Source: Public Data Portal, National Traditional Market Standard Data
🍶 Local makgeolli from Goseong-gun
1 breweries
These drinks are brewed in this area. It doesn't mean this market sells them. Sources: Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation traditional liquor data, Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs brewery tour program (Public Data Portal), checked by the site operator (picks).
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🗺️ Market and sightseeing · Suggested route
Markets are busiest in the morning. This is a rough route based on straight-line distance, starting at the market and moving farther out. Check real roads and times with the directions for each leg.
- 🧺Ganseong Traditional MarketMorning · Browse the market, have lunch at the food stalls
- 🚗 11km straight-line · about 20 min by car (estimate) Get directions1Hwajinpo Ecology Museum
- 📜 HistoryDesignated a tourist site in 2011.
- 👀 HighlightsObserve and learn about the Hwajinpo Lake ecosystem in 3 exhibition halls on different floors.
- 💡 Good to knowParking for up to 20 cars, with restrooms.
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지상 3층 규모로 층별 3개 전시관에서 화진포호와 관련한 생태계를 관찰, 학습할 수 있는 곳
- Designated a tourist site in 2011
- Parking for 20 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-680-3361
- 🚗 1.2km straight-line · about 5 min by car (estimate) Get directions2Hwajinpo Marine Museum
- 📜 HistoryDesignated a tourist site in 1995.
- 👀 HighlightsIt has a shell museum with some 40,000 items, including rare shellfish, crustaceans and taxidermy specimens.
- 💡 Good to knowThe parking lot holds 100 cars, with restrooms.
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세계적으로 희귀한 각종 조개류, 갑각류, 박제 등 1,500여 종 40,000여 점을 전시한 패류박물관과 수중생물 125종 3,000여 마리를 보여주는 어류전시관으로 구성
- Designated a tourist site in 1995
- Parking for 100 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-680-3361
- 🚗 4.0km straight-line · about 10 min by car (estimate) Get directions3Unification Observatory
- 📜 HistoryDesignated a tourist site in 1983.
- 👀 HighlightsAdmire the scenery of Geumgangsan and the East Sea from the observatory.
- 💡 Good to knowThe parking lot holds 320 cars, with restrooms.
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우리나라에서 가장 북쪽에 위차한 전망대로, 천혜의 절경이라 할 금강산과 동해바다의 비경을 감상할수 있으며, 통일관, 통일전망타워 등 기타 시설을 관람할 수 있는 곳
- Designated a tourist site in 1983
- Parking for 320 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-682-0088
Source: National Tourist Attraction Standard Data
Summaries were written by AI from public data and may contain mistakes. Please confirm important details in the original or on site.
📍 Nearby sights
- 📜 HistoryDesignated a tourist site in 2007.
- 👀 HighlightsFrom the five-story tower, look down on flocks of migratory birds flying into Songjiho Lake.
- 💡 Good to knowThe parking lot holds 50 cars, with restrooms.
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5층 규모의 독특한 관망타워 형태로 송지호에 떼지어 이리저리 날아드는 철새들의 군무가 한눈에 내려다보이는 곳
- Designated a tourist site in 2007
- Parking for 50 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-680-3361
- 📜 HistoryDesignated a tourist site in 2011.
- 👀 HighlightsObserve and learn about the Hwajinpo Lake ecosystem in 3 exhibition halls on different floors.
- 💡 Good to knowParking for up to 20 cars, with restrooms.
Show original description (Korean)Hide original
지상 3층 규모로 층별 3개 전시관에서 화진포호와 관련한 생태계를 관찰, 학습할 수 있는 곳
- Designated a tourist site in 2011
- Parking for 20 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-680-3361
- 📜 HistoryDesignated a tourist site in 1999.
- 👀 HighlightsSee the Hwajinpo Castle, the President Syngman Rhee Memorial Hall and Vice President Lee Ki-poong's villa.
- 💡 Good to knowParking for up to 60 cars, with restrooms.
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화진포의 성, 이승만대통령 화진포 기념관, 이기붕부통령별장으로 이루어진 곳
- Designated a tourist site in 1999
- Parking for 60 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-682-0500
- 📜 HistoryDesignated a tourist site in 1995.
- 👀 HighlightsIt has a shell museum with some 40,000 items, including rare shellfish, crustaceans and taxidermy specimens.
- 💡 Good to knowThe parking lot holds 100 cars, with restrooms.
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세계적으로 희귀한 각종 조개류, 갑각류, 박제 등 1,500여 종 40,000여 점을 전시한 패류박물관과 수중생물 125종 3,000여 마리를 보여주는 어류전시관으로 구성
- Designated a tourist site in 1995
- Parking for 100 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-680-3361
Source: National Tourist Attraction Standard Data
Summaries were written by AI from public data and may contain mistakes. Please confirm important details in the original or on site.
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