Gukjesijang(국제시장) : Nampodong International Market


It is a traditional market located in Daecheong-dong 3-ga, Jung-gu, Busan, Shinchang-dong 3-ga, Shinchang-dong 4-ga and Changseon-dong 2-ga. Another large market in Busan, Jagalchi Market, Cannon Market, and Book Bang Alley in Sangbu-dong, which has become famous recently, face one of the roads. It's a walking distance, so if you're here for sightseeing, you'd better watch it all at once.

This is Japanese during Japanese occupation zone and a Korean section is now,. Off limits to Koreans because it is not Japanese, but the Japanese occupation of the big cities on the Korean peninsula, the main action area are often divided by race. For example, in Seoul, the area around Myeong-dong, Jung-gu, and Chungmu-ro (Honmaji-dori) were Japanese zones, and the atmosphere is depicted in the Age of the Wild. With Korea's liberation from Japanese colonial rule, the market naturally began to form in the empty space in the center of the city, which was created by the exodus of tens of thousands of Japanese people at once. At first, it was named Doggigi Market.


When the Korean War broke out and Busan became the only place safe from the war, huge numbers of refugees, U.S. military relief supplies and contraband flowed into the port of Busan, and when supplies were absolutely scarce, the international market simply became a place to save anything. Traces of handling foreign products mostly still remain in neighboring tin markets.

In addition to the international market, stores importing such foreign goods have formed commercial districts wherever U.S. military units are stationed in Seoul (South Gate), Yeosu City, and Masan. These commercial districts remained in the name until the end of the 70s, dealing with smuggled daily necessities from Japan after U.S. military aid decreased. Among them, Namdaemun or Busan international markets in Seoul have changed due to the survival of commercial districts.


At that time, about 10 percent of the U.S. military's unloading materials were stolen and destroyed. After the Korean War armistice, the U.S. military's logistics system changed, and that's what the CAU, or container system, used to unload each shipment with a crane, as we saw in the original World War II movie, in a huge iron box. The filial piety of modern shipping was the Korean War. And the CAU has dealt a huge blow to the black market economy in many ports around the world (...), and although it is no longer a contraband item, C-Rations are still being supplied and sold in tin market areas (...).

In the heyday of the international market, it was also a well-known neighborhood along with Seoul’s Cheonggye Market, which was famous for being "nothing but nothing." The neighboring Bupyeong Express Market was so close to the international market that it could be handled in one way, while the neighboring Nampo-dong neighborhood was the largest busy street in Busan, where Jagalchi Market, the largest fish market in Korea, was located, and also boasted a crazy business district that adjoins the street across the street from the Bangbang Alley in conservative-dong. He is now very much dead compared to his heyday, but he is nothing but "compared to his meteoric period."

Even after the war ended, Korean residents in Japan and refugees from North Korea, who had nowhere to return, often settled nearby and worked in commercial areas of the international market.


Public Transport

You can get off at Nampo Station and Jagalchi Station on Busan Subway Line No. 1 and get there in about 10 minutes on foot. However, Jagalchi Station is closer. You can get there even after getting off at Jungang Station, but you have quite a distance. It is best to go to Jagalchi Station if you set the flower branch as the base point.

Besides that, you can come by riding No. 15, 40, 81, 86 and 186 via international markets directly. Among them, only routes via international markets in both directions are 40 and 81, and 86 and 186 are needed for consideration.

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