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DeLaRed
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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 Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:01 pm Post subject: Filipino street market - (previously in?) hyehwa |
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| always wanted to go there to try some of the food but heard they relocated to another area...anyone know where or if they did? |
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balzor
Joined: 14 Feb 2009
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Who told you they relocated? There is a decent Pino population there. Hard to believe they would move |
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nukeday
Joined: 13 May 2010
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| pretty sure it's still there. the food's ok...not sure i'd make a big trip out of it though. especially now that it's getting cold out, the food probably will be too. |
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DeLaRed
Joined: 16 Oct 2008
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waynehead
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Jongno
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:43 am Post subject: |
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| I live in Hyehwa. They're there every Sunday. It doesn't interest me, but if you'd like to check it out I'm sure they'll be there this weekend. |
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mmstyle
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: wherever
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:52 am Post subject: |
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| Nah, that's my neighborhood...they're still there. |
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Caffeinated
Joined: 11 Feb 2010
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:34 am Post subject: |
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| The market was closing up about 5pm last Sunday. It's really just a bunch of stalls mostly selling food and dry goods. Not sure the food is worth a big trek, but maybe they'll get a big plastic tent when the weather gets colder. |
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sojusucks
Joined: 31 May 2008
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2926463
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Seoul�s Filipino market to be cut in half
Citing traffic and overcrowding, the district office is moving ahead with its plan, despite objections from marketgoers.
September 28, 2010
The Filipino market in Hyehwa-dong is facing a new obstacle in its 15-year history.
Jongno District officials are planning to cut the size of the market in half, following complaints from local residents and overcrowding in the area around the market.
The market has become a popular weekend gathering place in Seoul for expats from various countries, and expats have already raised objections to the plan.
The Filipino market is held every Sunday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in front of Dongsung High School, where vendors sell everything from daily necessities, like shampoo and soap, to specialty comestible ingredients made in the Philippines.
Seoul�s Jongno District Office said yesterday in an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo that the size of the market will soon be cut to half, partially because the stalls interfere with pedestrian and vehicle traffic and also because of complaints from residents nearby.
�We plan to expel unauthorized vendors, but will allow 15 shops that have been in business for the past 15 years to remain,� said Choe Seong-min, the director of the district�s construction management division. �We know the place is a meeting spot for Philippine nationals in Korea, but the stalls cannot be legalized and residents have voiced lots of complaints about the market.�
Recently, the district office had white lines painted on the marketplace grounds to demarcate the stalls, allowing four square meters (43 square feet) for each one.
Vendors who cross the line will face consequences, the district office said.
�District office officials said if we cross the designated line, we will lose some of our merchandise,� said Park Il-sun, the leader of Hanbihoe, an association of Philippine merchants in Korea.
The market sprang up after a Filipino priest began conducting mass in Tagalog - the main spoken language in the Philippines - at Hyewha Cathedral in 1996, drawing a number of foreign nationals to the area. Today, the area is both a market and meeting place for Filipinos, Koreans and other expats.
The market is already half of its original size - it used to be 100 meters (328 feet) long. It will be cut in half again after the district�s plan is implemented.
Many regular marketgoers have expressed dismay about the market�s planned reduction.
�In this market, I can eat dishes from my homeland and meet friends,� said Aristotle Benjamin, a Filipino who lives in Ansan, Gyeonggi.
The market is also frequented by Koreans.
�I often visit this place because I can find the dishes I ate on my trip to the Philippines,� said An Jeong-hee, a Korean graduate school student.
In this sense, visitors have expressed their wish that the market be maintained.
�I visit this market whenever I miss the food from my homeland,� said Vivian Kim, a Filipino who married a Korean man last year. �I will feel lost if the market gets smaller and then disappears.�
Said Park: �I wish the government would designate this area as a multicultural district because over the past few years it has grown into the place for Filipino merchants and expats to meet.�
By Han Eun-hwa [[email protected]]
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mmstyle
Joined: 17 Apr 2006
Location: wherever
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| Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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| I agree with another poster-it's not much. Unless you need certain ingredients for cooking that they have there, or just going for a cultural thing, it's not really worth the trek. It's very small. I wouldn't call anything there a store-just stalls. Based on what sojusucks quoted, it seems as though they are trying to "kill" it without really killing it outright-just shrinking it to the point that it dies on its own. |
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