We tried to find the 'herbal' markets the next day. We'd heard of vendors sitting under their little umbrellas, selling weeds and roots to cure all that ails you, but all we could find was a plethora of ginseng dealers. Good enough. We stocked up on this particular "cure-all" in the shop pictured to the right, and we moved down the street...
...And what a street this was:
This was the funkiest place in Seoul that I visited. The strage array of shops on this street were surreal. Check out the displays we found in 2 of the storefront windows:


a prosthetics shop

taxidermy on display

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