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 ...

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 ...

The stores are best known for their numerous feats of "instant-izing" food, a process in which nearly every conceivable dish is turned into a packaged meal: spaghetti, Japanese udon, fried rice that ...