Wontong 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 033-461-2385
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 1956.
- Type
- A permanent market open every day, with an extra open-air market on dates ending in 2·7.
- Shops
- About 56 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
🌾 Inje-gun specialties
These are local specialties. It doesn't mean this market sells them right now. (Registered Geographical Indications)
Source: Geographical Indications of the National Agricultural Products Quality Management Service (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs) and the National Fishery Products Quality Management Service (Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries)
🍶 Local makgeolli from Inje-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.
- 🧺Wontong MarketMorning · Browse the market, have lunch at the food stalls
- 🚗 11km straight-line · about 25 min by car (estimate) Get directions1Yongdae Tourist Site
- 📜 HistoryDesignated a tourist site in 1996.
- 👀 HighlightsNearby are Sibiseonnyeotang Valley, Manhae Village, Baekdamsa Temple and dried pollack drying racks.
- 💡 Good to knowParking for up to 300 cars, with a campground, guesthouses and restaurants.
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설악산국립공원의 내설악지역에 위치하고 있으며 십이선녀탕, 만해마을, 백담사, 황태덕장, 하천 등이 관광지 주변이 있음
- Designated a tourist site in 1996
- Parking for 300 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking, Pension, Campground, Landscaped rest area, Restaurants
- Contact 033-460-4312
- 🚗 27km straight-line · about 55 min by car (estimate) Get directions2Center of the Korean Peninsula Observatory
- 📜 HistoryBuilt near the geographic center point of South Korea, it opened on May 31, 2007.
- 👀 HighlightsAn observatory where you can gaze at the sky from the center of Korea.
- 💡 Good to knowThe parking lot holds 55 cars and restrooms are available.
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우리나라의 중심에서 하늘을 바라보기 위해 국토정중앙점 부근에 건설되어 2007년 5월 31일 개관
- Designated a tourist site in 2007
- Parking for 55 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-480-7255
- 🚗 8.0km straight-line · about 15 min by car (estimate) Get directions3Hanbando (Korean Peninsula) Island
- 📜 HistoryDesignated as a tourist site in 2009.
- 👀 HighlightsAn island shaped like a miniature of the Korean Peninsula.
- 💡 Good to knowUp to 100 cars can park, and there are restrooms.
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한반도 지형을 그대로 축소한 섬
- Designated a tourist site in 2009
- Parking for 100 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-480-7267
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 1996.
- 👀 HighlightsNearby are Sibiseonnyeotang Valley, Manhae Village, Baekdamsa Temple and dried pollack drying racks.
- 💡 Good to knowParking for up to 300 cars, with a campground, guesthouses and restaurants.
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설악산국립공원의 내설악지역에 위치하고 있으며 십이선녀탕, 만해마을, 백담사, 황태덕장, 하천 등이 관광지 주변이 있음
- Designated a tourist site in 1996
- Parking for 300 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking, Pension, Campground, Landscaped rest area, Restaurants
- Contact 033-460-4312
- 📜 HistoryBuilt near the geographic center point of South Korea, it opened on May 31, 2007.
- 👀 HighlightsAn observatory where you can gaze at the sky from the center of Korea.
- 💡 Good to knowThe parking lot holds 55 cars and restrooms are available.
Show original description (Korean)Hide original
우리나라의 중심에서 하늘을 바라보기 위해 국토정중앙점 부근에 건설되어 2007년 5월 31일 개관
- Designated a tourist site in 2007
- Parking for 55 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-480-7255
- 📜 HistoryDesignated as a tourist site in 2009.
- 👀 HighlightsAn island shaped like a miniature of the Korean Peninsula.
- 💡 Good to knowUp to 100 cars can park, and there are restrooms.
Show original description (Korean)Hide original
한반도 지형을 그대로 축소한 섬
- Designated a tourist site in 2009
- Parking for 100 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-480-7267
- 📜 HistoryEulji Observatory was designated as a tourist site in 1988.
- 👀 HighlightsFrom atop the DMZ fence at 1,049 m above sea level, see the inter-Korean standoff at a glance.
- 💡 Good to knowParking for up to 20 cars, with restrooms and a parking lot.
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해발 1,049m DMZ 철책위에서 남북한의 대치 상황을 한 눈에 볼 수 있다
- Designated a tourist site in 1988
- Parking for 20 cars
- Facilities: Restrooms, Parking
- Contact 033-480-7251
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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