convenience store

GS25 has introduced a reformulated version of Korea’s ubiquitous convenience-store triangle kimbap (삼각김밥), branded as “소프트 삼각김밥” (Soft Triangle Kimbap), engineering the rice texture to stay noticeably softer even after …

CU has introduced “길리모어” (Gillimore), a private-label Scotch whisky, marking a notable step in Korean convenience stores’ continued push into premium alcohol categories that would have seemed far outside a …

7-Eleven Korea has undertaken a quality-focused overhaul of its sandwich lineup, part of the same wave of mid-2026 convenience-store product innovation that has seen rival chains GS25 and CU simultaneously …

For newcomers to Korea, the sheer density and functional role of convenience stores — CU, GS25, 7-Eleven, and Emart24 chief among them — can be genuinely disorienting: far beyond a …