Salarymen Spending More Time, Money in Department Stores
The Chosun Ilbo reports on creepy consumerism run rampant. 12 pm on the 1st on the 11th floor foodcourt in the head Shinsegye Department Store in Seoul. As soon as the elevator opens over 20 male company workers pour out, surrounding the women customers among them. 35-year old Jang Gi-yeong, a male employee of a design company who made the 10-minute walk from Chungmuro, bought and ate a Southeas Asian-style fried rice for W8,000, then sat on a bench in the park next to the foodcourt an