Gukje Market Busan

Gukje Market, situated in Jung-gu, central Busan, is a representative traditional market in Busan. After the liberation in 1945, the history of Gukje Market began at the current location as a marketplace for trading goods left by Japanese people and goods brought by Koreans abroad. This vacant lot was crowded with people and was initially called Dottaegi Market (a flea market). The name changed to a Free Market with the erection of a building in 1948 and again the name Gukje Market was given as the market began handling items sourced from the US military in 1950.
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