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Fish market, South Korea

Jagalchi Market, Busan

South Korea's largest seafood market, on Busan's waterfront, known for its women vendors and live fish tanks.

Jagalchi Market lies on the waterfront of Busan, South Korea's main port city. It is the largest seafood market in the country, with a modern market building and lanes of open-air stalls. Tanks of live fish, shellfish and octopus line the aisles, and buyers can choose a fish downstairs and have it prepared as raw fish, hoe, in the restaurants upstairs.

The Jagalchi women

The market grew after the Korean War, when refugees crowded into Busan and many women began selling fish on the shore. Women vendors, called Jagalchi ajummas, still run many of the stalls and are a symbol of the market and of the city's toughness. The Busan Jagalchi Festival, held each autumn, celebrates the market and the fishing harbour.

Korean fish

Hairtail, galchi in Korean, is one of the most common fish, grilled or braised. Chub mackerel, Alaska pollock, which Koreans eat fresh, frozen, dried and as roe, and anchovies, dried and stir-fried as a side dish, are everyday foods. Flatfish and rockfish are favourites for raw fish. Many fish once common off Korea, such as pollock, have become rare in local waters and are now imported.

Still to be written: Largehead hairtail, Chub mackerel, Alaska pollock, Japanese anchovy.

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