What to eat in South Gyeongsang

A street of braised monkfish specialists.

A harbour working in anchovy and hairtail.

A permanent market inside the Sangnam-dong entertainment district, with a five-day market overlapping on dates ending in 4 and 9. The food lane and the surrounding bar streets run late into the night.

Around the market in old-town Dongsang-dong, Korean soup houses sit next to Southeast Asian groceries and eateries. On weekends migrant workers gather and the market takes on an international feel.

The birthplace street of Chungmu gimbap near Seoho-dong by Tongyeong Harbor, where the dish became a national sensation after appearing at the 1981 'Gukpung 81' festival.

Korea's largest cod-landing port, handling over 30% of the nation's cod catch, with lively dawn auctions and a cod festival every December through February.

A cluster of restaurants at the entrance to the thousand-year-old Tongdosa Temple serving wild-greens set meals and grilled deodeok root, with some eateries over 40 years old carrying on temple food traditions.

A century-old pork soup street that began at Muan market in 1938, known for its clear broth simmered from beef bones instead of pork bones, which once fed Korean War refugees.