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The world's largest food ingredient market, Garak Mall has turned from a mere shopping space into a cultural space. Still, it is widely recognized as a fresh food shopping mall that has been newly built to solve various problems of former Garak Market such as deterioration of facilities and a lack of essential convenience facilities. Let’s take a closer look at Garak Mall which is bigger than any department store in the city and offers a wide variety of goods.
Garak Mall is a great tourist attraction where visitors can experience a new and fascinating culinary culture. It is divided into three zones with a total of seven buildings: The huge store building provides a space where you can shop for fruits and vegetables, fisheries, animal husbandry, food ingredients, and kitchen utensils far more conveniently than in the previous wholesale market at the same site; while the five theme-based building structures enable visitors to taste famous Korean dishes while enjoying a first-hand experience of the country’s unique culinary culture; and the office building houses various facilities, such as a library, cooking studio, and convention center, in addition to other offices.
With a total of 1,142 stores, the store building enables you to shop for all kinds of goods including fresh fruit and vegetables and marine products including dried seafood. Customer parking is easy thanks to its parking facility that can handle morethan 2,000 vehicles at the same time. With a great variety of unique sales and culinary facilities concentrated in an area, the five theme-based building structures allow for you to enjoy the country’s famous food and culinary culture in the most effective way. Despite the impression you may get from its name, the office building is a customer-friendly space with a convenience store, bank, childcare facility, library and much more, in addition to offices. Please take note of the characteristics of eachof the three zones in advance so that you can fully take advantage of Garak Mall.
If you are still concerned that you might get lost in the complex, use the cyber tour service via the Garak Mall website. You can check each part of Garak Mall there in the same way that you tap into Street View services elsewhere. The cyber tour service supposes that you arrive at Garak Mall by subway and starts at the point where you get out of the subway station, which allows you to plan your visit to Garak Mall in advance.
Located on the 4th floor of the Office Building, Garak Mall Library stocks a variety of publications from children’s books to current affairs magazines. Opposite the reading room of the library is the country’s only cooking studio in either agro-fishery markets or libraries. Its flagship program is the Book and Cook Class, linking books and food. Other food culture related programs are also available in the library and throughout Garak Mall. If you are interested in the topic, they are well worth your attention.
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