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Evaluating fire hazards of buildings and establishing fire safety management measures are essential because fires can cause casualties and extensive property damage. In view of these factors, traditional markets have a high risk of fire hazards, as has been proven in many fire accidents. To address this issue, this study provides basic data for establishing fire safety management measures through clustering of markets by considering the building and human characteristics of markets. To that end, we conduct a cluster analysis with the building and human characteristics of markets as variables. We examine the fire hazards of each cluster derived as a result of the analysis and present a simple discussion about the establishment of fire safety management measures. Commercial building-type markets were classified into four clusters, and fire hazards and the directions for establishing fire safety management measures were proposed considering the characteristics of each cluster. This is the first study that clustered the markets in South Korea, and it is significant in that the results of this study can be used as basic data for establishing fire safety management measures for markets in the future.