Overview
Hwagae Market, which appears as the setting in Kim Dongri's novel, "Yeokma" (meaning "Stagecoach"), has a beneficial location on the border of Yeongho-nam and Gyeongsangnam-do, allowing it to easy access to seafood and salt from the southern coast, grains from the plains of Honam, wild vegetables and herbs from the foot of Jirisan Mountain and its lumber trading center. You could count the number of markets of that scale in Korea on one hand.
Utilization information
Opening hours, closed days and other practical details.
- Market days
- Not fixed (Open every day)
- Contact
- • 1330 Travel Hotline: +82-2-1330
(Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
• For more info: +82-55-880-6051,
+82-55-883-5722, +82-55-883-4235,
+82-55-880-2383 - Opened
- Original: 1770 / Renovation: 1997
- Opening hours
- 09:00-18:00
- Closed
- N/A (Open all year round)
- Products
- Chestnuts, wild greens, persimmons, jakseolcha tea, sweetfish, other agricultural and marine products
Updated 2016.04.14
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 Bus Terminal, take an intercity bus bound for Hadong.
- Get off at Hwagae Terminal.
- From Hwagae Terminal, cross Hwagaegyo Bridge.
- Go straight 100m to arrive at Hwagae Market on the right..
15, Ssanggye-ro, Hadong-gun, Gyeongsangnam-do
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