Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A customer passes by an aisle and refrigerators full of items at a convenience store in Seoul. (Tina Hsu / For The Times) In many ...

Lotte Mart, Emart and major convenience chains are expanding in Vietnam, Mongolia and beyond as weak demand at home drives a ...

Foreign payment revenue at GS25 convenience stores in popular coastal destinations across South Korea jumped 136.9 percent ...

Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Imagine this: you need to pick up a package, top up your metro card, grab lunch and take out some cash. In most places, that would probably mean separate trips to the post ...

Aside from ramen and sausages, South Korea's convenience stores have a new popular item on the menu — gold bars. A variety of finger-nail sized gold bars weighing between 0.1 gram and 1.87 gram have ...

Gold bars are displayed for sale alongside packaged kimchi and ramen in convenience stores across Korea, with the yellow metal gaining among younger consumers in 2024. South Korea's largest ...

In many parts of the world, convenience stores are the shops of last resort: cigarettes, sodas and laundry detergent. But in South Korea, you might find single malt whiskies, $800 French wines, 24K ...