For three days from Monday, October 28th to Wednesday, October 30th, Andong City gathered all of Andong City’s agricultural and livestock products at Seoul Plaza, the center of Seoul, the capital of Korea, and opened “Andong Market,” a direct trading market for Andong agricultural and livestock products. It is held.
A variety of agricultural products such as Andong Korean beef, Andong apples, Andong peppers, Andong Sanyakma, Andong ginger, Andong sweet potatoes, Andong honey, and Baekjinju rice, as well as Andong ground mackerel, Andong steamed chicken, Andong octopus, and Andong Hakgasan kimchi, are popular throughout the country. You can also find local specialties.
Andong City, which realizes the humanistic value of respect for human life, is a center for producing high-quality agricultural products to the extent that the phrases ‘high-end’ and ‘premium’ can be attached to all agricultural products produced.
Andong has a developed cattle market since ancient times and is famous as a distribution center for buying and selling Korean beef nationwide, and its meat quality grade of 1 or higher is the highest in the country. Major agricultural products that boast a nationwide scale include Andong apples, which rank first in the nation’s production area, Andong ginger, Andong peppers, and Andong honey, which rank first in production, and Andong Sanyakma, which accounts for 70% of the nation’s production. It can be called a city centered on the rural economy.
Andong’s agricultural products are a region with high agricultural competitiveness, to the point where it can be said with pride that “all products are representative products.” In particular, brands for each item made in Andong, such as Apple, Andong Korean Beef, and Andong Yam Pig, are brands given only to the highest quality products. The apple brand Apple is a top-class apple brand that accounts for only 1% of Andong’s total apple production, and Andong Korean beef has a high reputation by winning the National Consumer Brand Award and the TV Chosun Management Award for 6 consecutive years, and Andong, an antibiotic-free pig fed on yam. Yam pork is popular with consumers who prefer healthy food.
At this “Onni Kkeo Andong Marketplace,” you can find fresh and delicious agricultural and livestock products from Andong at low direct prices.
Meanwhile, there are many foods to boast about, such as Andong Mackerel, which is said to be “even if there are people who have never tried it, but no one has eaten it once,” and Andong Jjimdak, which can only be eaten when visitors wait in line on weekends.
Andong Soju, a traditional liquor that Andong City is proud of, is an alcoholic drink that cannot be missed with a rich table setting. Andong sells various types of traditional liquor that was responsible for the refined culture of noblemen, with a modern twist. Andong Soju, which continues its tradition by preserving the traditional method, is being reborn as Korea’s representative traditional liquor that can be enjoyed with the MZ generation in highballs and cocktails, as well as green grape wine produced in the hometown of independence activist and poet Lee Yuk-sa, and the joys and sorrows of the common people. We are preparing an event that will satisfy the expectations of metropolitan citizens by introducing soothing makgeolli as well.
In the past, the marketplace was not just a place to buy and sell goods, but also a place where you could meet friends and relatives from neighboring villages and enjoy things to see, such as Namsadangnori and Samulnori. Accordingly, our city is also preparing Andong Talnori dance troupe performance and Hahoe Byeolsingut performance so that you can experience the exciting Andong Market. In addition, we have prepared a VR experience zone where you can realistically experience the game of chajeon, a publicity center where you can see Andong’s major tourist attractions at a glance, and a Hahoe mask photo zone, so that when you visit “Onnikeandong Market”, you will feel as if you have visited Andong. It is planned.
An Andong City official said, “We hope that many people will come to Andong Market, which is full of food and things to see, enjoy fun performances and programs, and fill their hands with delicious food.”
Economy Queen Reporter Kim Hong-mi / Photo Andong City
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