Millak Raw Fish Town
A ten-storey Gwangalli seafood complex that separates buying live fish downstairs from eating it in restaurants stacked above the market
Choosing live seafood, raw-fish meals, set courses, group dinners and combining dinner with an evening walk along Gwangalli
A ten-storey waterfront building with live-fish vendors on the first floor and raw-fish restaurants from the second through tenth floors
Millak is most distinctive as a piece of seafood infrastructure: one building makes the market transaction, kitchen service and waterfront meal visibly separate stages
The meal starts in a tank
The first decision at Millak happens before a menu appears. The ground floor is a live-seafood market: Suyeong-gu’s current registry lists 62 of 63 stalls trading in live fish and shellfish. A customer chooses the fish downstairs; the stall cuts and packs it, and the prepared sashimi is carried upstairs
That separation is the building’s defining mechanism. The seafood is bought from the first-floor stall, then eaten in a chojangjip upstairs — a table-setting restaurant that provides sauces, vegetables, side dishes and seats for a separate charge. The transaction is closer to shopping followed by table service than ordering one fixed restaurant dish
The restaurants begin on the second floor
Floors 2 through 10 are filled with raw-fish restaurants. A first-floor purchase can be carried upstairs to a chojangjip, while diners who do not want to compare live tanks can go directly to an upper-floor restaurant and order a set course
The vertical layout also changes the waterfront view. Some upper restaurants face Gwangalli Beach and Gwangan Bridge, but the sightline depends on the floor, restaurant and table. The building works as a stack: wet market at street level, dining rooms above, bridge and bay outside the windows
Millak has more than one seafood market
“Millak fish market” can point to several different places. Suyeong-gu separately lists Millak Raw Fish Town at 1 Millaksubyeon-ro, the Millak Fishermen’s Live Fish Direct Sales Center farther east, and Millak Shellfish Market on Gwanganhaebyeon-ro. They are separate buildings with different stall systems
That matters on arrival. Millak Raw Fish Town is the ten-storey building with the first-floor market and restaurants above it; the fishermen’s direct-sales center is a different market nearby. The wider waterfront is a seafood district, but this Place is one specific vertical market-and-restaurant building inside it
Before you go
The first choice is whether the market transaction is part of the meal. Buying downstairs gives control over the fish itself; going straight upstairs trades that comparison for a simpler restaurant order. With a downstairs purchase, the fish price is paid to the stall and the chojangjip’s table-setting charge is a separate upstairs bill
- Hours
- Daily 09:00–02:00; individual shop hours vary
- Admission
- There is no admission ticket; the seafood purchase downstairs and the chojangjip table-setting or restaurant charges upstairs are paid separately
- Access
- Choose seafood on the first floor and take it to a restaurant on floors 2–10, or go directly upstairs and order a restaurant course
- Transit
- Gwangan Station Exit 3 is about an 18-minute walk; buses also stop near Millak-dong Alley Market about seven minutes away on foot