Vegetable Category Auction at Garak Market Cheong Fruit and Vegetable Section Until Evening of August 4

Notice of Summer Closure Days for 2022 Garak Market and Others

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jong-il] Seoul's Garak-dong Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market (hereinafter Garak Market) and others will enter summer closure.

According to the Seoul Agro-Fisheries & Food Corporation (President Moon Young-pyo, hereinafter the ‘Corporation’), among the fruit and vegetable categories at Garak Market, the vegetable category will hold auctions until the evening of August 4 and will reopen from the evening of August 7.

The fruit category closed after the morning auction on August 5 and will resume auctions at dawn on August 8.

Among the seafood categories at Garak Market, fresh fish and shellfish categories closed after the morning auction on August 5 and will resume from the evening auction on August 7.

Dried seafood category held auctions until the morning of July 26 and will resume from the dawn auction on August 1.

Also, at Gangseo Agricultural Products Wholesale Market (hereinafter Gangseo Market), the vegetable category of the auction system (vegetable and fruit categories) closed after the evening auction on July 28 and will resume from the evening auction on July 31.

The fruit category closed after the morning auction on July 29 and will resume from the dawn auction on August 1.

In the case of market wholesalers, transactions will be conducted until midnight (24:00) on July 29 and will resume from midnight (00:00) on July 31. The grain wholesale market will conduct transactions until 6 p.m. on July 29 and will resume from 7 a.m. on August 1.

Kang Min-gyu, Head of Distribution Division, stated, “To ensure smooth supply of agricultural and marine products before and after the summer closure, we will strengthen cooperation with wholesale market corporations and intermediate wholesalers to do our best to stabilize supply and demand.”

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