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Shinsegae Department Store is a major South Korean department store chain operating flagship retail locations, including in Seoul's Gangnam district.
Lotte Department Store's foreign-shopper sales passed 1 trillion won on October 6, 36% above its full 2025 total with nearly three months left. Jamsil and the regional stores grew at close to the company's overall pace, so the figures show a market getting bigger more clearly than one spreading wider.
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E-Mart's goat milk formula sales rose 115.2% in January-August, three times standard formula's pace, as Korean births rise. The industry still expects goat formula to hold only 13% of the formula market this year, up from 10% in 2022.
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Lotte Department Store hired Jennie, its first star model in about a decade, as first-half foreign shopper sales rose about 125% to 640 billion won. The chain is betting tourist spending now outweighs the tenant-brand risk that pushed the industry off celebrity faces.
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The share of Koreans meeting the daily 500-gram fruit and vegetable target has fallen by about a third since 2016, and the growth retailers report is in fruit somebody else has already cut into halves, quarters and eighths.
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Interest-based memberships now carry 7-10% monthly discounts and 5-10% gift-back. The concession is disclosed; the incremental spend it buys is not.
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KREAM's card transaction value grew 208-fold in seven months on 131-fold volume. That makes this a participation story rather than an appreciation one. And 77% of that value sits inside a single licensed IP.
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