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Convenience Store Korea

J.K. YOUNG

인사이트케이주식회사 · 2026-11-13 출간 예정

ISBN 9791123127286 · 기술과학

정가 17,500원 · 전자책

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책 소개

A 24-hour kitchen with a bank, a post office and a seat outside.

3 AM, a CU in Seongsu. Four people inside, none of them talking.

A man in a suit is microwaving a lunch box. Two girls in matching pajamas are debating cup noodles with the seriousness of a wine list. A delivery rider is asleep on the bench outside with his helmet on. The clerk is restocking banana milk.

Nobody is buying anything you’d call groceries. They’re buying dinner, breakfast, a cure for a hangover, a seat, a phone charge, twenty minutes of warmth.

There are about 55,000 of these stores in Korea, one for every 900 or so people, the densest network on earth, and most of them are open right now. This book is about what’s inside. All of it. The noodles, the combos, the services, the table, and the 3 AM silence.

This is a book of words only. No photos, no logos, no pictures of noodles. That is a choice, not a limitation: you will be standing in front of the real shelf, and the real shelf is better than any photo. What you need is to know what you are looking at, what it costs, what to do with it, and how to ask for the microwave. That is what the words are for.

The book has five parts.

1. Convenience Store 101 explains the system: why there are so many stores, how the four chains differ, how the 1+1 game works, what the hot-water station is for, and how to pay.

2. The Product Dictionary walks the shelves by category, from triangle kimbap to the “healthy” corner, naming around two hundred real products with their Korean names, their price range and a line on what they taste like.

3. 100 Honey Combos is the heart of the book: a hundred mixes that Koreans actually make from store ingredients, each with a shopping list, three steps, a difficulty level, a spice level and a sentence you can show the staff.

4. Services You Didn’t Know About covers parcels, ATMs, phone charging, tax refunds, bottle returns, bills, delivery and the store as a safe place at night.

5. Culture and Beyond is for the reader who wants to know why: the drama scenes, the generation that eats this way, the people behind the counter, the bestselling novel, and the regional exclusives.

A few rules about the information in it.

Prices. Every price in this book is a regular shelf price seen in one of the four chains between mid and late 2026, in Korean won. Promotion prices are different, and promotions change on the first of every month. A product can be ₩1,700 at one chain, ₩1,500 at another, and free as a 1+1 extra at a third, all in the same week. Treat every price here as “about this much,” not as a promise.

Availability. When we say a product is at CU, we mean we saw it at CU. We do not mean the other chains don’t sell it. Convenience-store shelves are small and local, and the store near your hotel may lack what the store near the station has. If you can’t find something, ask; the sentence to ask with is in each chapter.

Combos. Where a combo has a known origin, a TV show, a fan, a magazine, a chain’s own promotion, we say so. Where our editors chose it because it works, we mark it “Editors’ pick.”

Korean. Product names are given in Hangul with a simple romanization the first time, so you can match the shelf and show the staff. You do not need to read Korean to use this book. You need to be able to hold it next to the shelf.

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