Latest stop on South Korea’s shopping trail? The pharmacy

On a chilly October afternoon in Myeong-dong, Seoul’s bustling tourist shopping district, Vietnamese tourist Nguyen Lan was browsing the shelves of a pharmacy for red ginseng, a favorite dietary supplement for many South Koreans. She used Google Translate to ask the pharmacist how much it cost, what its benefits wer…

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