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= Werng Nakhon Kasem =

GEOGRAPGHY
Werng Nakhon Kasem is a district that is very popular in Bangkok, Thailand. It is located on Sum Phan Tawong District in Bangkok and well-known in Thailand in terms of the place that trade electrical gadgets, and the most popular one is about selling musical instruments in this area, plus old rare books around Thailand.

HISTORY
In 1870’s, this area is King RAMA V’s, and he would like to create the big pond and the public park for his people, he gave the name “Wung Num Thip” which means ‘The Palace of Holy Water’ in Thai. Nearby this place is a group of Chinese Tae-Jew communities. Afterwards he gave this place to his son, His Majesty Buriphat, and he realized that there are many communities growing around there, so His Majesty Buriphat decided to reclaim the pond and gave the name “Nakhon Kasem” which means the community that full of happiness.

After King Rama V freed the slaves, some of them stole from their masters and sold these stolen goods in the market. Hence, the other name of Nakhon Kasem is “Thief Market”. Some Western people sometimes make the trade here so it became the ancient stock of old goods. Then this area developed up very fast. Small department stores were built around this area, and this place had the first theatre combined with a department store in Thailand, and it is called “the Nakhon Kasem Theatre” which is decorated with Art-deco.

Then after the World War II ended, Thai people got more interested in Western Music more than before, so this area started to sell and trade the western musical instruments, Western old books, including food in the form of little row houses.

In the beginning, There are wooden row houses but there was a conflagration in 1965, so they decided to renovate the building to be 2 stories reinforced concrete building. The architecture in that age was also influenced by the Western style.

AT PRESENT
This area is the place of five big clans of Thailand, and the government allowed this area to be able to build mid-rise, commercial buildings as well. This area was the most popular market of musical instruments in Thailand for a long time. However sadly the government decided to shut down the area a couple years ago, 2015. But there are some shops still open, but not as much as before.

TRADINGS
Werng Nakhon Kasem is well-known as the musical instrument biggest trading area in Thailand, and also including the Thai food, the most popular one is “Beef Noodle”. There are also electronic gadgets, old books around the world that some of them are very rare now, and goods imported from England and Western countries.

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