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Moran Folk 5-Day Market is a comprehensive traditional market located in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province. It is the nation’s largest five-day folk market, held every month on the 4th and 9th, and every other five days. If you get off at Exit 5 of Moran Station on the Suin-Bundang Line or Subway Line 8 and go up, you’ll come out right away. Looking down from the rooftop of a building across the main road, you can take in the entire Moran Folk Five-Day Market at a glance, covered in colorful parasols. As word spread about the Moran Folk Five-Day Market’s unique character as a traditional market in the city center, it began to earn a reputation as a nationally celebrated “famous market.” Even amid the nationwide trend of decline in traditional markets, they continued to develop repeatedly as folk markets while preserving their unique traditions and distinctive diversity. Moran was a place name given in the 1960s when the wasteland around Seongnam was reclaimed, and it is where the history of Moran Folk Market, held every five days, began. Moran Market began with Kim Chang-sook, who left her widowed mother in Pyongyang and moved south. After enlisting in the military, serving through the K…
