Jagalchi Fish Market

I had heard the fish market was a very fun experience, so I was amped up to go even though I don't eat seafood and most sea creatures scare me when they're alive. Erik and I took the "Humetro" (subway in Pusan) to Ja-gal-chi, the largest fish market in Pusan, Korea.

Main entrance to Jagalchi Fish Market

As we're walking along I would get screamish (not squimish b/c i literally would make little "eee" sounds). Erik asked me, "shouldn't you be used to this? Isn't there a fish market in Seattle?" Yes, the Pike place market is very well known for their seafood but the Korean fish market was definitely different. Maybe slightly more gritty, more real for sure. We watched a lady skin a live Eel and then place the still wiggling body into a bowl with other skinned eels, all of which were still moving around. Don't worry I took a video of this. My mother would never watch it though. Just ask her about the snake incident when she was younger.

Eel skinning Korean woman and moving eel in bowl (front)

Some more images from the fish market:

Lady choping extremely long fish into smaller pieces

Huge bowl of shrimp

Huge octopus (probably parents to Erik's earlier meal)

Erik with his favorite snacks

Hanging out with all the fish

Russian King Crab (it was HUGE)

Dry fish skin, apparently icelanders like to eat this with butter as a snack

Seeing all the fresh seafood didn't inspire me to try any seafood in Korea unfortunately, but it was indeed very fun to see!