Seoul Yangnyeongsi Herb Medicine Market


Also known as Gyeongdong Market, Korea’s biggest Asian medicine market runs back for several blocks from the traditional gate on the main road and includes thousands of clinics, retailers, wholesalers and medicine makers. If you’re looking for a leaf, herb, bark, root, flower or mushroom to ease your ailment, it’s bound to be here.

Be sure to visit the Seoul K-Medi Center within the market to brush up on your pharmacy smarts, or simply to chill over a cleansing cuppa or herbal foot bath.


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