Local food streets in South Chungcheong

Inside the traditional market in Yesan-eup, ox-head soup and noodle houses cluster around a recently rebuilt market square with plenty of seating. With Sapgyo tripe nearby, it is the main food market of Yesan.

A coastal stretch of autumn prawn and grilled shellfish restaurants.

On Cheonsu Bay, Namdang Port is known for autumn prawns and winter cockles. The restaurants along the harbour hold seasonal festivals.

At the fish market in Daecheon Port, Boryeong, you buy blue crab, webfoot octopus and pen shell and pay a table fee to eat next door. Next to Daecheon Beach, it is busiest in summer.

A sundae (Korean blood sausage) street next to Cheonan's historic Auraji market, born in the 1960s when a local ham factory spurred pork-offal sundae shops that grew into a nationally famous cluster.

A large traditional market by Onyang Hot Springs in Asan, with a five-day market on 4s and 9s known for ox-head gukbap and mulgalbi.

A traditional market established in 1937 beneath Gongsanseong, Baekje's royal fortress; legend says the injeolmi rice cake got its name here when King Injo praised it during his wartime refuge.

A fishing village on Seosan's Ganwol-do known for eorigulgeot, spicy salted oysters said to have been a royal tribute in the Joseon dynasty; its beach holds Korea's first monument dedicated to a food.

A food street developed along Gudrae, the old ferry landing of Baekje's last royal capital in Buyeo, lined with local restaurants serving gomtang and makguksu.

A small fishing port in Dangjin's Seokmun-myeon, a West Sea catch spot famous for silchi (juvenile icefish) and host of an annual spring silchi festival.

A salted-seafood market that carries on the legacy of Ganggyeong port, once ranked among Joseon's three great markets, famous nationwide for fermented shrimp and other jeotgal.

A village in Seocheon's Hansan-myeon home to some 70 breweries producing hansan-sogokju, a 1,500-year-old rice wine once served in the Baekje royal court.

Cheongyang's five-day market (2s and 7s) since 1971, known for local specialties like Cheongyang chili peppers, goji berries, Chilgapsan melons, and freshwater crab dishes.