Gurye 5-Day Market & Gurye Traditional Market
Overview
Gurye is the first famous national park in Jirisan Mountain and is home to clean water and spacious fields near Seomjingang River. The main products of this area include a variety of wild herbs, vegetables, sansuyu (cornus fruit) and plums from Jirisan Mountain and Baegunsan Mountain.
Houses with cornus fruit trees are easily found in the district of Sandong-myeon, Gurye-gun and the whole village gets dyed yellow in the spring and red in the fall. The amount of sansuyu from the area accounts for nearly half Korea’s total.
Also, chestnuts are common in Gurye Market as a complex of chestnut tree takes up 1,400 ㏊ of the land.
Utilization information
Opening hours, closed days and other practical details.
- Market days
- Every 3rd, 8th, 13rd, 18th, 23rd, 28th of month
- Contact
- • 1330 Travel Hotline: +82-2-1330
(Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
• For more info: +82-61-782-8484 - Opening hours
- 05:00-19:00
- Closed
- N/A (Open all year round)
- Products
- Crops, general goods, red pepper, sesame, wild herbs, cornus fruit, etc.
- Size
- * Site area - 14,767m²
* Store area - 4,030m²
Updated 2017.01.16
Access
How to get here by subway or bus, with a map.
Routes and travel time from your current location open in Google Maps. Naver Map is shown in Korean.
[Bus]
From Seoul Nambu Terminal, take an intercity bus bound for Gurye Bus Terminal.
- Take a taxi to the Gurye 5-Day Market (구례5일장)
(walking directions can be confusing)
- The ride should be less than 5 mins and under 5,000 won.
Call the Korea Travel Hotline for assistance with directions.
20, 5ilsijangjageun-gil, Gurye-gun, Jeollanam-do
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