Garak Market Fruit and Vegetable Section: Vegetable Auctions Open Until Evening of February 8, Reopening from Evening of February 12

Among the fresh produce categories at Garak Market, the vegetable category will hold auctions until the evening of February 8 and will reopen from the evening of February 12.

Seoul Garak-dong Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market (hereinafter referred to as ‘Garak Market’) and others will enter the Lunar New Year holiday closure for 2024.

According to the Seoul Agro-Fisheries & Food Corporation (President Moon Young-pyo), among the fresh produce categories at Garak Market, the vegetable category will hold auctions until the evening of February 8 and will reopen from the evening of February 12, while the fruit category closed after the morning auction on February 9 and will resume auctions at dawn on February 13.

Among the seafood categories at Garak Market, the fresh fish and shellfish categories closed after the morning auction on February 9 and will resume from the evening auction on February 12, while the dried seafood category held auctions until the morning of February 8 and will resume from the dawn auction on February 14.

Also, at Gangseo Agricultural Products Wholesale Market (hereinafter ‘Gangseo Market’), the vegetable category of the auction system closed after the evening auction on February 8 and will resume from the evening auction on February 12, while the fruit category closed after the morning auction on February 9 and will resume from the dawn auction on February 13.

For market wholesalers, transactions will be conducted until 6 p.m. on February 9 and will resume from 6 p.m. on February 12.

The grain wholesale market will conduct transactions until 6 p.m. on February 8 and will resume from 7 a.m. on February 13.

Kang Min-gyu, Director of the Distribution Headquarters at the Corporation, stated, “To ensure smooth supply of agricultural and marine products before and after the Lunar New Year holiday closure, we will do our best to stabilize supply and demand in cooperation with wholesale market corporations and intermediate wholesalers.”