Former Lotte Department Store Masan Branch Annex Parking Lot to Open Free of Charge During Chuseok Holiday

Changwon Special City Eases Parking for Citizens
Fill Your Shopping Bags with Nubijeon Gift Certificates

During the Chuseok holiday, Korea’s traditional harvest festival, there is some good news for citizens planning to visit Masan Fish Market to purchase ceremonial goods using their cars.

Changwon Special City announced that, to enhance parking convenience for citizens visiting Masan Fish Market during Chuseok, it will open 113 spaces on the 2nd and 3rd floors of the annex parking lot of the former Lotte Department Store Masan branch free of charge.

Changwon Special City Hall. [Photo provided by Changwon City]

The free parking period will run for five days, from September 20 to September 24, with available hours from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Changwon City plans to deploy professional safety personnel on-site to support parking operations, ensuring citizens can use the parking lot safely and comfortably.

This free parking initiative aims to reduce parking inconveniences for citizens visiting Masan Fish Market ahead of Chuseok and to improve accessibility to the traditional market, making holiday shopping more convenient. In addition, to further ease citizens’ holiday shopping expenses, Changwon City will issue an additional 30 billion won worth of the paper-type “Nubijeon” Changwon Love Gift Certificates for the holiday period.

Kang Giyoon, Mayor of Changwon Special City, stated, “We have provided temporary parking spaces so that citizens visiting traditional markets during Chuseok can shop conveniently without worrying about parking. In addition to the extra issuance of Nubijeon, we will continue to provide various forms of support to lighten the holiday shopping burden for citizens and to ensure a warm holiday for traditional markets and local small businesses.”

Changwon City’s efforts to eliminate parking burdens for citizens are expected to greatly benefit not only market shopping at Masan Fish Market but also the local economy.

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