Seoul Markets
Market place panoramas.  The first one is of motorcycles that buzz around the markets couriering merchandise back
and forth.  The second 360^o inside a junction in the market.

The markets in Seoul are a spectacle seen by many but also avoided by certain tour groups that think they are old
fashioned and well, dirty.  We found them bustling and even more interesting.  We visited four markets:
Namdaemun, (down the hill from the Hilton Millennium) Insadong, Gwangjang and Dongdaemun.
Each had a different variety than the others but each market had similar vendors and merchandise.  For example;
Namdaemun had collection of eye-glass shops, Gwangjang had garden supplies, Dongdaemun restaurant supplies
and Insadong ran along a major street and had many sit down restaurants versus stalls.  Every market seemed to
have clusters of popular items.  So if one vendor had a good thing going, others would follow and that market would
have a cluster of that popular item.  Creating sections like watches, luggage, jewelry, shoes, fabric, bedding, etc.
We ate street food at Gwangjang and watched as the women made fresh tableside noodles from dough.

Fresh Korean pancakes from ground corn? and tableside bi-bim-bap


Tableside noodles from dough


View down the market street, popular Korean style fried chicken, gingseng and a full house
of folks eating noodles with about ten differen vendors/stallls and fresh flat doughnuts