Siem Reap Night Market

남대문 시장 (Namdaemun Market)

Namdaemun Market may be my new favorite place in Seoul. It is one of the oldest continually-running markets in Korea and the largest in Seoul. This market takes up about six city blocks and there is more crap than you have ever seen in your life. I always wondered what happened to all the clothes/bags/jewelry that were made and never purchased...now I know. That being said I found some incredible street food and stores - hidden to the untrained eye down 3 foot alleys between buildings. How the heck does someone make a livable income selling only gift bags or MC Hammer pants? God only knows.


She'll hem your new jeans while you wait.


Every few feet a store owner would empty a box of stuff into the middle of the street, screaming and clapping that for 10 minutes you could buy his wares at a steep discount (or at least I think that's what all the fuss was about...).










Troopers.

동대문시장 (Dongdaemun Market)

Sean, Scott and I went to Dongdaemun (neighborhood of Seoul) on Sunday not knowing what to expect. What we found were more bargains than you could imagine and more useless crap than anyone would ever know what to do with. (I talked a woman down from $7 for a pair of amazing kelly green velcro sneaks to $4.) We were the only foreigners. Needless to say, I was in heaven.




"Caca jusayo?" (Sean's a haggling wizard)


Becky this sooooo reminded me of you :)




so not organic don't panic...I almost bought it, rationalizing that though its fur, it's second hand so the animals weren't killed for ME. ha. yeah right.






I liked how Barack Obama, Black and White Michael Jackson, a gorilla and some Chinese dictator were sold next to each other.






(Sean made this guy sooooooo angry because he touched his stuff without asking and didn't put it back in the right place... hahahah.)