Gijang Market

This guide to Gijang Market in Busan opens before dawn with a fisherman's wife sorting anchovies by hand, a ritual that predates everyone selling here today. It traces the market's path from a rotating five-day market founded in 1944 to a permanent daily one by 1960, and further back to Joseon-era records praising the same coast's anchovies and seaweed. Live snow crabs shuffle in tanks along the alley, and each January by the lunar calendar, fishing families still perform an old rite asking the sea for a good catch.