Tan-cheon Brook links the southeastern part of Seoul and southern part of Gyeonggi-do by waterway and bicycle
road. Garak Market, located at the waterfront of the Tan-cheon Brook, has extensive area of 500,000㎡. Considering its
location and huge size, the Garak Market has a great potential to suggest a methodology for the construction of an
efficient and environment-friendly large scale social infrastructure. In 1970s and 1980s, the surrounding of Garak
Market had been developed as apartment complexes. Accordingly, Garak Market became to be regarded as a
‘nimby facility’ and lost its justification in current location. However, various subsequent studies proved that other
candidate locations are not as good as current location of Garak Market. Therefore, now the solution is no more
focusing on the moving out of the market. Studies are going on to add new functions to Garak Market so that the
market would have new functions proper to current location in the residential zone; in addition to the inherent
agricultural and fishery products market function of it. In the general urban context, the functions of distribution and
leisure, manufacturing and shopping are exclusive to each other; occupying different areas in the city; however, in
Garak Market, they can be combined in one place. A desirable alternative creating new form of social infrastructure
with diverse functions can be created at Garak Market.