Dongdaemun General Market
Sprawling wholesale complex where up to eighty percent of a nation's fabric trade changes hands daily.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Dongdaemun General Market in Seoul opens on a November day in 1970 with a young tailor named Jeon Tae-il, a short walk down the Cheonggye stream. It goes back to the refugee shacks and garment workshops that grew along that water after the Korean War, and the market that stood here before it. Then it takes you inside, floor by floor, through the trimmings and fabrics the whole district was built on. Best heard standing outside the main entrance before you go in.
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