Convenience store in Korea - What kind of CVS in Korea? Tips for travelers

When you are walking on the streets of Korea, you can see many CVSs. Most of CVSs are GS25, CVS for you (CU), Seven Eleven (7-eleven), and MINISTOP. As you know, in CVS, you can buy almost everything 24 hours a day you want including foods, household goods, medicines, and so on.

Fig 1. CVSs in Korea.

You can see these CVS signs everywhere when you are walking on the street of Korea. 

There are CVSs everywhere in other countries. So, I think you can use it easy without any difficulties. In this article, I will show you some tips for buying things in CVS. That is a "buy one get one free" event. You can see many event products when you are in CVS. Most of them are "buy two get one free". Even beers have an event such as "buy two get one free" or "buy four of world beers with 10,000 won (less than 10 dollars)". If you want to drink for cheap in your hotel, it would be good choice.

Fig 2. Tips for buying things in CVS.

When you are in CVS, you can see these figures near the products. (Left figure) (1) It means "buy two get one free". If the first number is one, it means "buy one get one free". (2) It means "period of event". For example, in this figure, the event runs through January (1.1 ~ 31). (3) You can choose it other flavors from the same products. (Right figure) (4) It means "get one free among the products". In this case, you can choose one among the energy drink, hot or iced coffee. (5) It means same as (2).



In next few articles, I will introduce some products that you need to know about and that are currently very popular.

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