Editing Chatuchak Weekend Market (section)

==History==
Chatuchak Market has been open since 1942.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/johnsun.hsu2-1978178-chatuchak-weekend-market-bangkok/ | title=Chatuchak Weekend Market Bangkok | access-date=2014-11-29 | archive-date=2017-07-06 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706174853/http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/johnsun.hsu2-1978178-chatuchak-weekend-market-bangkok/ | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1948, Prime Minister [[Plaek Phibunsongkhram]] had a policy that every province was required to have its own market. Bangkok chose [[Sanam Luang]] as the market site. After a few months, the government moved the market to [[Sanam Chai, Bangkok|Sanam Chai]]. The market moved back to Sanam Luang in 1958. 

Starting in 1975, General [[Kriangsak Chamanan]] had the policy of using Sanam Luang as a place of recreational activity for the populace which would also be used for commemorating ceremony. As General [[Kriangsak Chamanan]] was the chairman of [[State Railway of Thailand]] at that time, he thus permitted the use of land on the south side of [[Chatuchak Park]] as a market. His plan was to recycle waste from the looming Din Daeng Garbage Mountain which had stacked up across the decades to use as landfills, and he recruited military engineers for the job. The park was fully completed in 1978, when General Kriangsak Chomanan became the Prime Minister.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bangkok.go.th/jj2minburi/page/main/2449 | title=เกี่ยวกับเรา – กองอำนวยการตลาดนัดกรุงเทพมหานคร (ตลาดนัดเมืองมีน) | access-date=2020-03-25 | archive-date=2020-03-25 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200325100437/http://www.bangkok.go.th/jj2minburi/page/main/2449 | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Food and music shops to look out for at Bangkok's Chatuchak Weekend Market|url=http://www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/travel/food-and-music-shops-to-look-out-for-at-bangkoks-chatuchak-weekend-market|work=The Straits Times|date=23 December 2016}}</ref> 

By 1983, all of the merchants had moved to Chatuchak. At that time the market was called Phahonyothin Market. In 1987, its name was changed to Chatuchak Market.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jj-app.com/?p%3D97 |title=ประวัติตลาดนัดจตุจักร ตลาดนัดสวนจตุจักร (Jatujak Market) &#124; jj app แอฟพลิเคชั่นบนมือถือ สำหรับนักท่องเที่ยว ตลาดนัดสวนจตุจักร |access-date=2014-11-29 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130511071554/http://www.jj-app.com/?p=97 |archive-date=2013-05-11 }}</ref>

The [[clock tower]] is a distinctive landmark in the Chatuchuk Market. It was built in 1987 on the occasion of [[King Bhumibol Adulyadej]]'s 60th birthday on 5 December 1987, a cooperative effort of the market administration and Thai-Chinese Merchant Association.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Davies|first=Ryan|date=2018-02-05|title=Chatuchak's Clock Tower|url=https://www.chatuchakmarket.org/chatuchak-market-clock-tower/|access-date=2021-03-19|website=Chatuchak Market: The World's Largest Weekend Market|language=en-GB}}</ref>

On Tuesday 11 June 2024, at about 4am, a fire broke out in the ornamental fish zone in [[List of markets in Bangkok#Markets|Srisomrat Market]], also affectionately known as Sunday Market, adjacent to the bigger Chatuchak market, burning out 118 sales stalls, killing some 1,000 animals including snakes, spiders and Siamese fighting fish.<ref name=2024-06-12_ABC>[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-12/animals-killed-as-fire-rips-through-bangkok-pet-market/103967154 More than 1,000 animals killed as fire rips through famous Bangkok market], [[ABC News Online]]/wires, 2024-06-12</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=June 11, 2024 |title=Fire at Thailand's famous Chatuchak Weekend Market kills hundreds of caged animals |url=https://apnews.com/article/thailand-bangkok-chatuchak-fire-animals-29453720a80c5c4ce767440e0d95c77f |access-date=July 11, 2024 |work=Associated Press News}}</ref>