Traditional Market, Samgoul Market, Jeongeup - Jeongeup-si, Jeollabuk-do, Korea
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Traditional Market, Samgoul Market, Jeongeup
Jeongeup-si, Jeollabuk-do, Korea
Jeongeup has the best market in Jeollabuk-do. It is a big market within five fingers in Korea. It was first opened in 1914 and boasts 100 years of history.
As evidenced by its 100-year history, old blacksmiths, sundae gukbap, and uncle fry are still alive. There are some houses that have been handed down for generations, and some that have just entered the market, but the 100-year-old market is full of people buying and selling things every day. It is truly a scene of life.
Fish owners who are busy with fish trimming
The name of Sam Goul Mayor was originally Jeongeup 1st Market. It was said to be the largest in Jeongeup, so a Japanese official during the Japanese colonial rule named it for administrative convenience.
It's full of people bargaining for things.
In order to add meaning to the name, the new name was created as a public offering of citizens. This is the name given to the meaning of ‘Goeul with Sam’ because there are many springs in the place where the market was located.
Sam Goll Market
It was originally an oil field held every 2nd and 7th. Then, as the people who visited the market never stopped, it has become a permanent market that is vibrant every day. It is a place where you can always visit without having to keep in mind the date. Every day is a market day, except that the livestock market is added on the 2nd and 7th.
Trim the intestines for sundae gukbap
There are more than 280 stores and more than 500 merchants in the business. The number of grandmothers is even higher when the grandmothers' difficulties are spread around the market.
Grandmother
City people's market visit, mayor is citizen's square
The market I visited before the holiday is more vibrant. It is crowded with people from the surrounding villages and foreigners who have come to see the long distances. There are plenty of things to eat, see, and eat at Sam Goll Market, which is quite far away.
The market is a people's place of life and a playground.
There is nothing in the market. It is not a chapter with or without something, but a chapter with or without something. Agri-food, livestock and processed foods abound, and old restaurants, mills, rice cakes, hardware stores, and daily necessities each occupy one place. In particular, alleys selling agricultural and marine products are hilarious with the high voices, laughter and anger of people who buy and sell.
Her smile, selling early in the tree
“A handful more. Can you cut me a thousand won ~ ”
“Oh, well, I've been devoting myself to the tree. No more ~ ”
Early waiting for guests
The appearance of a woman and a merchant who went out to the market to show off a bargaining spirit is an old sight of a traditional market. When you go to the market, you can feel the energy of people and the energy of life. Jang is also a place to buy or sell something, but it is also a place where people meet and people meet each other. It is a place where people who know or talk with people they do not know talk about living in disrespect and share affection. It is a place where you can hear new news from a distant world and unravel large and small stories one by one, one by one. It is a meeting place where people who know each other and know people who do not know and laugh and fight while facing each other. So even if there is not much to see, it is fun to visit the market.
Making a linen songpyeon
Beauty salon next to the mill
There are a few unusual scenery in the Sam Goul Market. One of them is the 'beauty salon next to the mill'. In the alley of the mill, 10 beauty salons were located one by one across the house. The rice cakes and peppers are left in the mill, and while they are crushed, her grandmothers and grandmothers are doing winding curls. While I'm out of the market, I see a market, do my hair, and wait for a long time, so I don't get bored. While the men are shouting at the soup restaurant and fluttering, the women fall into chattering at the beauty salon. After shaking for a long time, a long-lasting perm is completed, and the rice cake left in the mill waits with a warm face.
There is always a beauty salon next to the mill.
There is another spectacle. It's been 100 years ago. In the blacksmith's office, quenching is in full swing. If you're lucky, you can meet the smith who makes the farming equipment by tapping and hitting it. The flipper's flipper machine is also quite antique. I'm worried that the old man's eardrum, which is being fried with corn, rice, and shouts for many years, “뻥 ~ yo”, is more worried about the surprise of the people standing around. Whether you buy it or not, if you eat a handful of deep-fried fried rice, you will feel the traditional taste of the traditional market, which cannot be found in the mart tasting corner.
Mr. Fried, who has been yelling "I'm Yo" for over 30 years.
There are also three or four houses that make and sell traditional musical instruments such as Janggu. It inherits the ancestral spirit, which was an intangible cultural property, and produces and sells traditional musical instruments.
Forge that has a 100-year tradition
The food is also packed. There is Hwasunok, a Sundae Gukbap restaurant that has been over 50 years old.
Hwasunok's Old Sundae Gukbap
It's time to taste Moshi Songpyeon in the folk rice cake shop and dog cake with wormwood in the pine tree rice cake mill.
New red bean porridge in old red bean porridge
Eat the pheasants, eat the eggs, and see the taste
It is also worth boasting that the Sam Goul Market is a private market, not a public one. Traders develop their markets by discussing and planning head-to-head. Rather than moving according to someone's instructions or plans, merchants have united themselves to respond to change and adapt to it, and have continued a 100-year tradition. In the next year, which marks the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the market, the company plans to hold various cultural events with citizens through specialization projects for cultural tourism. It is a market with a history and tradition that can be found in textbooks.
100 won free coupon for 5,000 won worth of purchase
The Mayor of Sam Goul developed coupons to provide customers with fun and convenience. If you buy more than 5,000 won, you can give a coupon of 100 won and collect 30 coupons and use it like cash when you get 3,000 won. You can also give a prize by writing your name after the coupon. On the 2nd of every month, 20 people are drawn to give Onnuri gift certificates, and quarterly prizes such as electronic products are awarded. There is also a point card that earns 50 won once you stop by the market. Earn once a day, whether you buy or not. Even for those who don't spend 100 won, this is a joy.
Samgoul points card that is earned every time you enter the market
If there are many long distances, it also provides courier service. If the merchant pays 2,000 won and the customer pays 1,000 won, same-day delivery is possible in Jeongeup downtown. If you come from a remote location, you can also deliver it to a train station or bus terminal, so you don't have to worry too much about it.
Sam Goul Market
Even if you don't have much to buy, why don't you have fun and drink, see Jangdo, and watch people live and enjoy the energy in a comfortable market instead of a comfortable mart? A bowl of red bean porridge, a bowl of sundae gukbap, and a bowl of mugwort rice cake are also worth buying.
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