2016 WeAJa flea market to be held on Sunday
Published: 13 Oct. 2016, 20:01

At the event, which draws more than three million people each year, attendees can trade goods, bid for items donated by celebrities and enjoy entertainment.
Donors this year include pro-golfer Park In-bee, who won gold in the 2016 Summer Olympics; former President Lee Myung-bak; National Assembly Speaker Chung Sye-kyun; GS Caltex Chairman Hur Dong-soo; SK Telecom CEO Jang Dong-hyun; as well as male actors Park Seo-jun and Bae Yong-joon, among others.
The country’s largest day-long flea market has raised over 1.3 billion won (about $1 million) in previous years, with all proceeds going to help underprivileged children.
In Seoul, the flea market will be held in Gwanghwamun Sqaure, central Seoul, from 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The event in other cities will run 30 minutes longer, until 4 p.m., at Borame Park in Daejeon; at the plaza in front of Dasom Yard in Busan Citizens Park; and at the National Debt Redemption Movement in Daegu.
Admission is free.
The Anti-Corruption & Civil Rights Commission, which drafted the antigraft act, confirmed in a statement that running the WeAJa bazaar is legal and neither donors nor buyers will be punished because the event serves the public interest.
Golfer Park In-bee, who won gold in the latest Olympics and is currently ranked 7th on the Rolex Rankings, donated her Odyssey White Hot RX 1 Putter, which she is said to have personally used.
Actor Bae Yong-joon submitted a bottle of Onda d‘Oro, cabernet sauvignon produced by Dana Estates in Napa Valley, California.
The influential Buddhist monk Hyemin donated a Buddhist textbook and rosary.
Former president Lee Myung-bak donated a personally calligraphed chengyu, or four-character Chinese idiom, which he proclaimed on New Year’s Day in 2009 and wrote recently. The meaning of the idiom is: “to save the nation and lead it aright.”
For more information, visit weaja.joins.com, email [email protected] or call 02-2115-7331 for the Seoul flea market; 051-867-8701 for Busan; 042-486-9008 for Daejeon; or 053-792-1403 for Daegu.
BY LEE SUNG-EUN [[email protected]]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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