Geojin Traditional Market

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Getting there · Parking

📞 Market contact 033-681-8606

Upcoming market days

Market days from public data (as of 2025-11-10). Dates are calculated, so please double-check before you go.

About the market

History

Opened in 1965.

Type

A permanent market open every day, with an extra open-air market on dates ending in 1·6.

Shops

About 62 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.

1. 🧺
   Geojin Traditional Market

   Morning · Browse the market, have lunch at the food stalls
2. 🚗 2.9km straight-line · about 5 min by car (estimate) Get directions1
   Hwajinpo 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
3. 🚗 1.2km straight-line · about 5 min by car (estimate) Get directions2
   Hwajinpo 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. 🚗 4.0km straight-line · about 10 min by car (estimate) Get directions3
   Unification 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

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