Opening of Customer Support Center at Sangye Central Market, Nowon-gu

Completion of 'Sangye Jungang Market Customer Support Center' on the 3rd floor above ground, 225.52㎡ total area, near Sangye Station Line 4, including cold storage, public restrooms, customer support room, training room, and merchants' association office

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Nowon-gu (District Mayor Oh Seung-rok) announced that it has completed the construction of the ‘Sanggye Jungang Market Customer Support Center’ to expand convenience facilities for visitors and merchants and revitalize the traditional market, and will begin full-scale operation.

The Customer Support Center, located at 389-666 Sanggye 5-dong within Sanggye Jungang Market, was built as a three-story building with a total floor area of 225.52㎡.

Registered as a traditional certified market in 2010, Sanggye Jungang Market has long suffered from a lack of convenience facilities, to the extent that there was no public restroom, causing inconvenience to both customers and merchants.

The construction of the Customer Support Center, which faced difficulties due to budget shortages, was completed by investing a total project cost of 1.784 billion KRW after being selected for the traditional market facility modernization project by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups in 2019.

Looking at the detailed facilities by floor, the first floor was designed as a logistics warehouse equipped with public restrooms including accessible restrooms and a low-temperature storage room. By providing a shared storage facility to merchants who had difficulty purchasing in bulk due to the lack of proper storage space, it is expected to help reduce purchasing costs.

The second floor houses the merchants’ association office and a customer support room for the convenience of market visitors. The third floor consists of a conference room and an education hall, which will be used as a multipurpose space for merchants’ training and events.

The district expects that through the operation of the Customer Support Center, not only will customer convenience facilities be expanded, but the revitalization of exchanges among merchants will bring new vitality to Sanggye Jungang Market.

Meanwhile, the construction of a Customer Support Center is also underway at Dokkaebi Market in Gongneung-dong, another traditional market in the area, with completion scheduled for the first half of 2023.

Additionally, the district is making various efforts to secure the competitiveness of traditional markets, including promoting the construction of parking lots at both Sanggye Jungang Market and Dokkaebi Market in Gongneung-dong.

Oh Seung-rok, Mayor of Nowon-gu, said, “We hope many residents and merchants visiting Sanggye Jungang Market will make use of the facilities,” and added, “We will continue to do our best to create a pleasant traditional market environment that satisfies both merchants and visitors.”

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