Namdaemun Ginseng Market남대문인삼시장

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Namdaemun Ginseng Market is the section of Namdaemun Market where shops selling ginseng are clustered together. About 20 shops face each other across the market's central aisle. They sell both wholesale and retail, so ordinary shoppers can also buy high-quality ginseng at low prices. Prices vary a little by product, but are usually 20–30% lower than at other stores. Prices are this low because the shops buy ginseng and ginseng products directly from farmers in the growing regions and from processing companies. The Namdaemun Ginseng Distribution Center, on the 2nd floor of the Namdaemun Theater Building, sells fresh ginseng as well as processed ginseng products such as ginseng tea, ginseng powder and candied ginseng. It also carries other ginseng-related products and health foods, including red ginseng products from the Korea Tobacco & Ginseng Corporation, honey, reishi mushrooms, traditional teas, brown rice, Job's tears and vegetable enzymes. Prices of fresh ginseng and other ginseng goods rise and fall depending on that year's harvest.