Snapping off in Seomun Market (서문시장)
It was Children’s Day and downtown would have simply been too crowded so I headed off to Daegu’s largest market, Seo -Mun (West Gate). It is enormous! The photos are dated April but were in fact taken on May 5th.
Ajummas eating lunch among dried fish
I found these extremely entertaining. Try explaining ‘tacky’ to a Korean!
an array of Kettles
Dried fish and ‘kim’ (김) – dried and toasted seaweed sheets
One of the alleys on the periphery of the market
a store owner who insisted on being photographed. The sheets of seaweed in the background are seen as beneficial for pregnant women.
a box of cinammon
dried ray fish
dried octopus
bags of bar snacks
rice cake
rice cake
and more rice cake…
© 林東哲 2011 Creative Commons Licence.
Street Vendors
One of the most common sights in Korea are the street vendors who peddle everything from snacks and vegetables, to meat, fish and bicycle repairs. There are many different kids of street vendors from the ones who travel around an area with a street market to people who pull up on the side of the road in small trucks from which goods are sold to the little old ladies who sit around towns with a selection of vegetables strewn on a sheet on the ground.
I’m a total sucker for the old ladies and will often stop to buy something though I’m told they’re not poor. Last week, I saw a woman from whom I regularly buy spinach, unload her groundsheet from the back of a new range rover-type vehicle, probably owned by her son, and then start laying out her cabbages and lettuces.
the crossroad by my school where the Monday Morning market meets E-Mart
the grandmas are always laughing and a bottle of makalli (rice wine) is usually in the background
in the hear of Monday Morning market
This side streets specializes in vegetables, curd, and beansprouts
Late summer
The market directly outside my school
garlic in the Sunday market, the surrounding air was tainted with it’s smell
The street market outside Lavender Sauna, near Dong-Daegu KTX Station
in the rural town of Gor-Yang
cabbages in a more abundant season – winter 2008
© 林東哲 2010 Creative Commons Licence.
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