[Enjoy Food] Black Pork & Horse Cuisine

Jeju Island has a unique culture of food!

Black Pork&Horse Cuisine

Jeju Island has a unique culture of food due to the geographic characteristics of the island and its unusual natural environment. Even today, citizens of Jeju Island maintain this unique, traditional flavor reflecting the island’s nature in their life.

Black Pork

Many tourists, on the first time on Jeju, wonder where the best place is to try the island’s delicious black pork. Sometimes, if you go by travel book recommendation it feels that something is missing and if you go to a totally unknown restaurant, you cannot be assured of the taste. In this situation, if you want a clear reply, the answer would be to “just go anywhere.” Wherever you go on Jeju, you can find delicious black pork restaurants. The meat is even more delicious if you eat it with Mel-jeot, which is a salted anchovy that reduces the pork’s oiliness and makes it tastier.

Horse Cuisine

Dishes made using horse were the finest served to the King in times of antiquity. Horse is used in a variety of dishes, including raw horse meat, horse sushi, tangsuyuk (sweet and sour meat), galbijjim (rib stew), gui (roast meat) and bulgogi (sliced and seasoned barbequed meat). Horse meat tastes lighter than beef and each part and organ, such as the liver, has its own unique flavor.

[FunFun Market] jeonju moraenae market

Plentiful Generosity and a Variety of Food

 

 

 

It is fun to choose between the variety of food at the Jeonju Moraenae Market, such as red bean kalguksu, sundae rice soup, whole chicken, Chinese pancakes, and sticky rice donuts. One of the original sundae rice soup restaurants at the Jeonju Moraenae Market is ‘Pi Sundae,’ which is highly known for its unchanging traditional taste for the past 23 years.

 

 

The Gochang Chicken Restaurant, also known as ‘Shijang Tong Dalk’ (Market Whole Chicken), is located inside one of the market’s alleys. This restaurant reminds customers of past memories and stimulates their.

 

[FunFun Market] jeonju moraenae market 2

Life of Freshness and Direct Transactions

 

 

The Jeonju Moraenae Market sells vegetables·fruit·meat·fish·dried fish·clothing and other miscellaneous items. Of the produce, the sale of farm-fresh Chinese cabbage and white radish is the most famous. The view at dawn at the Jeonju Moraenae Market is of merchants and their overflowing trucks of Chinese cabbage and white radish and a long line of retail dealers and customers who want to buy these products. Clean produce is harvested and delivered directly from nearby Soyang, Yongjin, and Jinan daily.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Eliminating the middleman, the fresh garden vegetables are sold at more affordable prices than competitive markets. There are also many customers who live in other areas that go out of their way to come to the Jeonju Moraenae Market because the quality of the vegetables is always good. Cows, pigs, chickens, and other livestock products raised in clean areas is another representative product of the Jeonju Moraenae Market.

 

[Enjoy Korea] the Seoksu Art Project (SAP). in seock-su market

Finding Hidden Treasures Everywhere the Path Touches

As a new city appeared, the commercial center of Anyang moved to that area, and the atmosphere of Seoksu Market slowly sunk. However, the market’s atmosphere gradually began to change as ‘Stone and Water’entered the area in 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

The lonely stores that had lost their function transformed into a kaleidoscopic space, and the merchants and artists’ efforts became a revitalizing tonic for the market. Artists drew merchants’faces on the walls of the market, made newsletters, and carved door plates to tell the merchants’ stories. There are also works done by both artists and merchants together installed in the alleys of the market. With a sense of fellowship with the merchants, Stone and Water had a successful role in attracting young customers to the market through an art project known as the Seoksu Art Project (SAP). A space that was turned into a gallery naturally attracts citizens, and Seoksu Market is slowly but surely changing toward the center of merchants and artists. With every year,Seoksu Market has developed into a special cultural space. There was even a scene where artists and merchants met; as customers began coming to look at the works of art in the market, the merchants themselves had an art project of their own. This year as well, Seoksu Market is planning to hold various exhibitions centered around Stone and Water,where art and everyday life meet and communicate. A new picture of the evolving market is being drawn on the artists’ large canvas.

[Enjoy KOREA] Traditional markets epitomize Korean culture

Traditional markets epitomize Korean culture

Traditional markets in Korea have increasingly become an invaluable tool to bolster the tourism industry.

More tour programs for foreign travelers include a traditional market on their itinerary in an attempt to allow them a glimpse of unedited Korean culture and typical daily life.

The government and merchants have taken advantage of the change in getting rid of long-standings at many traditional markets that were once littered with trash and discredited for the sale of fresh produce kept in unsanitary conditions at unfixed prices.

Behind the achievement is the Agency for Traditional Market Administration (ATMA). It was established in 2005 under the support of Small and Medium Business Administration and is committed to reinvigorating traditional markets and transform them into a tourism magnet projecting the “spirit of traditional Korean culture,” according to a release.

Jung Suk-youn, director-general of ATMA, said his organization is responsible for establishing an environment where visiting traditional markets becomes a core part of inbound tourism.

“Markets are not a place where people just sell and buy products. It’s a place where the various faces of Korean society coexist,” Jung told The Korea Times at his office in downtown Seoul, Monday. “The core reason for travelling is to see and experience a different culture. I believe no other places are better than traditional market to see real face of the country.”

ATMA will host a variety of events at traditional markets in Seoul, Busan, and Sokcho for foreign residents and those in Korea on vacation ahead of the Chuseok holiday (the traditional harvest festival), which falls on Sept. 30.

Participants will take a market tour and with the help of Korean advisors buy ingredients for a cooking class to make traditional Korean food eaten during the Chuseok celebration. Other special activities will include learning how to perform “charye” (an ancestral ritual), a traditional “samulnori” Korean percussion performance, and shop with discount coupons offered by the agency.

“This is a proactive campaign to lure foreign travelers (to markets) and promote our culture,” Jung said. “We still have long way to go. But I’m certain that this small step will create more and more followers and they will eventually make a big stride in improving the value of markets as a tourism asset.”

On top of this, the agency runs a website (www.sijang.or.kr) that contains in-depth information about Korean traditional market. The website is available in English, Chinese and Japanese. In addition, it provides information on the specialties of each market and things to see and do around each one to fuel foreigners’ interest.

“The accessibility of traditional markets was indeed low despite their high value in the aspect of cultural tourism and keen interest of foreigners due to the language barrier,” Jung said. "The website will help foreign tourists take one step closer to traditional markets, and we will continuously upgrade its content that can promote the charm of traditional Korean markets.”

The agency has recently turned to social networking services to promote the nation’s traditional markets worldwide by starting a Facebook page. It also has a smartphone app, available for download via the website.

The Korea Tourism Organization recently joined forces with ATMA by publishing a traditional market guidebook for Chinese tourists in the latest in a series of efforts to revitalize visits to traditional markets in Seoul.

It focuses on the Gwangjang, Tongin and Gongdeok markets and suggests interesting experiences available there through a format based on SBS TV’s famous show “Running Man.” The book consists of different missions that can be completed by visiting food vendors or different stalls.

ATMA is also held responsible for improving the basic hygiene of markets and merchants. It has hosted a “college for merchants,” in which professionals educate vendors about customer services that have exclusively been available in department stores and discount malls.

“Merchants’ ignorance of customer services has led to a declining popularity of traditional markets,” Jung said. “Many merchants and mom-and-pop store owners are still trapped in the obsolete belief that people will buy products regardless of customer services. But that’s not the case anymore with supply to markets exceeding demand. It’s time for vendors to realize the situation facing them and become self-motivated to change.”

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