15 April 2026
Not the hanok village
Jeonju central market
Having spent last night and today in the area of the hanok market, I was hanok'd out, until at least tomorrow night. Therefore tonight I headed in the opposite direction and discovered that there is not that much else going on.
First was city hall, which has air lifted a historic site into the middle of the building (see below), followed by a nearby market that was actually quite large. The best I can do to discover it's name is that is is the central market, or possibly clam market. Google translate argues with itself.
Eventually I ended up back in the normal hotel area shopping streets for some tofu soup, exciting indeed.
Back at my hotel, and a K league professional football (soccer) team is staying in the same hotel as me, their buses and vans in team colours are illegally parked blocking all hotel entrances. Anyway, the interesting thing is, they are a top league team, but it is the armed forces team. The team is all players from other professional teams who are currently doing their military service. Hmm.
A Homeplus. This is another version of Korean wal-mart, I wandered over thinking it looked a bit run down. Abandoned.
This is Jeonju city hall. Note the ancient historic temple shrine they have craned up into the middle of the building.
I headed to the market, which has a convenient drain for fish guts disposal.
The inside of the market was surprisingly spacious.
Spacious until they pile vegetables up the middle of where you are expected to walk.
The other night I mentioned movie street, this is it. The Jeonju film festival is heavily promoted. Golden footprints are placed around the area.
Next I wandered down to the river to find out if these rocks are slippery. They are not.
A mega church! Jesus! Pope!
And now that I was full of salvation, poor person tofu stew. It was adequate.
Tomorrow, hiking day, shorter hike again I think.