Andong Wholesale Market — Agricultural Produce Section: physical wholesale market in Andong
Andong is a centre for physical agricultural trading and should be distinguished from the separate seafood market in the same city. Andong, South Korea.
AGR-307 · Physical wholesale market · Andong, South Korea · KRW
Andong is a centre for physical agricultural trading and should be distinguished from the separate seafood market in the same city. Its produce section contains several operators, including Andong Cheonggwa as an accessible point of contact. Apples feature prominently on that company's website through sorting information and daily bulletins. For an orchard business, the site is a useful starting point for enquiries about receiving and selling fruit.
The municipal profile incorporating the 2025 expansion records 68,999 m² of land and a maximum handling capacity of 650 tonnes per day. The latter is a published capacity figure, not observed daily turnover. A third hall began operating on 1 September 2025. Different auction starting times appear within the municipal page, so the schedule for a particular delivery should be confirmed with the selected operator rather than taken from a single search result.
Andong Cheonggwa maintains separate annual price archives, and its 2026 list includes a publication dated 30 October. Check year, date, variety, grade and pack weight when opening a bulletin. The website also displays an apple-sorting queue. This is useful when organising arrival, but a queue position observed on a previous day is not a booking for another truck.
Apple sellers should prepare lots separated by variety and the quality specification agreed with the receiver. Ask whether fruit should arrive already graded, how consignments are numbered and how any sorting service is charged. Driver scheduling should allow for waiting and possible changes to the sale timetable. Establish how rejections, damage and weight differences will be documented, since these can affect the final return from a consignment. These questions should be resolved before dispatch rather than inferred from a published headline price.
Buyers should state whether the apples are intended for retail sale, further storage or processing. Each use calls for a different specification of ripeness and acceptable defects. A maximum price for a variety is insufficient for comparison without lot weight and grade. Confirm collection arrangements, packaging and current stock before instructing a purchase. If several deliveries are planned, agree a repeatable specification and a method for approving substitutions. Public bulletins provide context for negotiation; the selected counterparty must still confirm the actual terms of supply.
What is priced: Grains, oilseeds and pulses, Fruit, Vegetables and potatoes, Fruit and vegetables, Fish and seafood
Products and quotations
Fruit; especially apples; vegetables; tubers and selected grains; this profile excludes the separate seafood market
Sources
- Municipal produce-market profile — www.andong.go.kr
- Andong Cheonggwa: contact and sorting queue — www.andongff.com
- 2026 daily price bulletin — www.andongff.com
All agricultural exchanges, markets and price sources