Garak Market, South Korea full implementation of a drop-off transaction for cabbage in December

Published 2021년 4월 13일

Tridge summary

The Seoul Agricultural and Fishery Food Corporation is set to fully implement the cabbage drop-off transaction at the Garak-dong Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market by mid-December this year. This initiative, which aims to improve the market's logistics system and advance transactions, has seen positive changes since its trial with other items in 2017 and 2018, including reduced waiting times for transport vehicles and increased transaction reliability. However, the implementation of the cabbage drop-off transaction was delayed due to price collapses and the COVID-19 pandemic. The Seoul Metropolitan Government is actively discussing the detailed implementation method with stakeholders and plans to introduce a constant temperature facility in Garak Market Vegetable Building 2, set to complete in 2023, to protect the marketability of items and ensure all trading will be pallet-based.

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From mid-December this year, the unloading of the cabbage pallet, the last item for the next commercial transaction in the Garak-dong Agricultural and Marine Products Wholesale Market, will be fully implemented. Since 2017, the Seoul Agricultural and Fishery Food Corporation has been carrying out drop-off transactions for subsequent commercial items on an annual basis since 2017 to improve the logistics system of the Garak market and advance transactions through the improvement of pre-modern trading practices. Following the daikon, onions, and chopped radish in 2017, we promoted the drop-off transaction for chives, cabbage, and leek in 2018, and the drop-off transaction for the above items has been fully established. Cabbage was also expected to be promoted in 2019 after discussions from 2018, but the full implementation period was delayed by about three years from the beginning due to sharp conflict of opinions, price collapse, and epidemic of corona19 infection among ...

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