Garak Market
가락시장
A public wholesale market run by the Seoul Agro-Fisheries & Food Corporation. Each division auctions on its own clock — fruit and vegetables are scattered from 02:00 to 23:00 by commodity, seafood opens at 23:00 with fresh fish. The grounds stay open around the clock, but no auction runs from Saturday evening to Sunday dawn.
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Place information
- Korean name
- 가락시장
- Address
- 932 Yangjae-daero, Songpa-gu, Seoul (Garak-dong)
- Nearest station
- Garak Market Station (가락시장역, Line 8) (Exit 3)
- Opening hours
- open at all hours varies by shop
- Closed
- Open year-round
- Hours notes
- The market is open 24 hours; the auctions are not continuous. The operator publishes a start time per commodity: in produce, grapes, peaches and citrus at 02:00, apples, pears and yuja at 08:00, graded leaf vegetables at 18:30, spring onion at 20:30 and onion at 23:00; in seafood, fresh fish at 23:00, shellfish at 23:30, frozen at 01:30, live fish at 03:30, dried squid, dried anchovy and laver at 06:00, dried seaweed at 06:30 and other dried goods at 07:00. Several vegetables have different winter and summer times, and the operator states that times can vary by wholesale company and by season, publishing separate enquiry numbers for produce (3435-0432) and seafood (3435-0421). Cabbage at 23:00 is a temporary 2026 arrangement. No auctions run from Saturday evening to Sunday dawn, under article 3 of the enforcement rules of Seoul's wholesale market ordinance.
- Admission
- No entry fee — you pay each vendor
- Operated by
- Seoul Agro-Fisheries & Food Corporation
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Where these facts come from
- Seoul Agro-Fisheries & Food Corporation — Garak Market (road address and the operating body) ·
- Seoul Agro-Fisheries & Food Corporation — auction times by division, and the Saturday-evening-to-Sunday-dawn gap ·
- Songpa-gu tourism — Garak Market: open 24 hours all year, exit 3 of Garak Market Station on Line 8 ·
- OpenStreetMap — the Garak wholesale market polygon (amenity=marketplace), in Garak 1-dong ·