Bupyeong Kkangtong Market (Can Market) Visit

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The Bupyeong Kkangton Market in Busan is near Nampo-dong. Although this place is less known to foreign tourists, Koreans really like it. Apart from the night market in Seoul, there are no night markets in other cities. However, this market in Busan is similar to the night market. In addition to the uniqueness of this place itself, there are many delicious foods. Follow us to visit the Bupyeong Can Market!

Bupyeong Kkangtong Market

• Address：39 Bupyeong 1-gil, Bupyeong-dong, Jung-gu, Busan
• Hours：Traditional market 08:00 to 20:00; night market 19:30 to 23:00
• Subway : Busan Subway Line 1, Jagalchi Station, Exits 3 and 5

Busan Bupyeong Can Market has a lot of roadside snacks, but in fact the market is not large in size, and is composed of straight streets. When there are not too many people, the whole area can be covered in about 20 minutes.

Usually in the daytime, the Market will be like the above picture. There are many vendors of groceries and daily necessities, the transparent ceiling will also provide good lighting, and it is clean and comfortable to walk around.

However, around 19:00, merchants selling daily goods will start to close their stalls, replaced by simple night market vendors, and launch to sell some snacks to attract people near Nampodong and Jagalchi.

I visited the Bupyeong Market in Busan to experience the culture of the night market in Busan. Although it is not as large as Seoul, the sensation of wandering around the canned food market is warmer.

Unlike the Busan snacks in our imaginations, the night market vendors in the Bupyeong Can Market have racked their brains into new tricks to attract everyone to consume. Just seeing these vendors can't help but make you hungry.

Beef Sushi

I have visited the night markets in Seoul a few times, but when I wandered around, I felt nothing new, but the Busan Bupyeong Market was special, and there were so many choices that it was dazzling.

Do you know? In fact, the Bupyeong Market was originally in Bupyeong, because after the Korean War, the market originally called Bupyeong sold the remaining supplies and canned food of the US military, hence the name "canned food".

In addition, after the Koreans who participated in the Vietnam War returned to Korea, they also sold things brought back from the war, such as emergency rations and other foreign items, which also gradually spread from "Bupyeong Can Market" to the whole country. It was like a base camp.

Moreover, it was really difficult to buy foreign products in South Korea at that time, so Bupyeong Market in Busan also provided many illegally imported new electronic appliances, foreign wine, tobacco and other products.

Fried Pork with Veggies

The current Bupyeong market is famous again in South Korea because of the reopening of the night market in 2013. Inheriting the market history of selling foreign products, the food at Bupyeong CanMarket is very diverse.

Unlike the other traditional Korean markets, the food sold at Bupyeong Market is more special, and it's not about common Korean snacks. There's a lot of items that are really eye-catching.

Although I couldn't help but frown at some of the food in the canned market and I couldn't see what it was, but they were all very delicious and the price was much lower than that of Seoul.

No matter where you eat it in Korea, sugar cakes and green bean pancakes will always make you unconsciously stop and buy one to take and eat while walking.

No idea what the food in the above picture is...

The rice rolls, filled with fillings, make you drool!

Moreover, here at Bupyeong Market in Busan, I saw that besides the common rice cake sausage skewers, there are even large gopchang skewers.

Beautiful strawberry cakes, of which the price is very modest, and it is about the size of a hand. If I weren't full of the snacks that I had already stuffed in, I'm sure I'd have bought at least two.

When you see here, do you think the night market in Busan is much richer than the night market in Seoul? No longer need to hassle with the terrible expensive street vendors. Just visit here where the quality and prices of the food are reasonable and very popular among Koreans.

Hope you got to know Bupyeong Market in Busan better after the article. If you travel to Busan, you must come to Bupyeong Market (Night Market) in Nampodong to experience this traditional and simple vibe.

Dear friends, see you next time.