Gurye Fifth-Day Market & Gurye Traditional Market (구례5일장 / 구례전통시장(3, 8일))

Explanation

Gurye is famous for its location near the first national park, Jirisan Mountain, and is home to clean water and spacious fields near Seomjingang River. The main products of this area include a variety of wild herbs, vegetables, sansuyu (cornus fruit) and plums from Jirisan Mountain and Baegunsan Mountain.

Houses with cornus fruit trees are easily found in the district of Sandong-myeon, Gurye-gun and the whole village gets dyed yellow in the spring and red in the fall. The amount of sansuyu from the area accounts for nearly half Korea’s total.

Also, chestnuts are common in Gurye Market as a complex of chestnut tree takes up 1,400 ㏊ of the land.

Inquiry

+82-61-780-2358

Homepage

www.gurye.go.kr

Information Use

Collection of the Day : Every 3rd, 8th, 13rd, 18th, 23rd, 28th of month

Contact and Information : • 1330 Travel Hotline: +82-2-1330
(Korean, English, Japanese, Chinese)
• For more info: +82-61-782-8484

Business hours : 05:00-19:00

Day off : N/A (Open all year round)

Sale Items : Crops, general goods, red pepper, sesame, wild herbs, cornus fruit, etc.

Scale : * Number of stores- 167
* Site area - 18,280m²
* Store area - 3,190m²

Location

20, 5ilsijangjageun-gil, Gurye-gun, Jeollanam-do

Directions