storefront advertising ice cream, macaron, cookie, and jelly, with some ramen bowls in carts outside the window
Every now and again, you’ll come across a self-service convenience store in Korea. It’s unmanned and boasts a variety of drinks, snacks, and other sundries. This particular one had a shaming poster on its door.
shaming poster taped to the door; guests have had their faces covered with stickers but there’s a note urging them to come back and pay for what they stole before the owners go to the police
I’ve seen these kinds of stores but had never wandered into one, so I thought I would wander in and buy a bottle of water as I was on my way to the tax office to get some paperwork.
cooler full of water, teas, and sodasview of the interior, two small aisles that connect at the backvarious frozen soupsvarious frozen hamburgers and chicken nuggetsmacarons, tteokbokki, and the ubiquitous ice cupssnacks like Oreos on the shelvesfreezer of ice creamsome traditional snacks and other candiesanother view of the interiordried squid and jerkya wall of gummies, known in Korea as “jellies”self-scanning machinebandaids and other first aid things
Do you have these kinds of stores in your country?
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