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  2. Emart - Wikipedia

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    Emart Inc. Emart Inc. ( Korean : 주식회사 이마트) is the largest retailer in South Korea. The Retailer was founded on 12 November 1993, by Shinsegae, as the first discount retailer in South Korea. [3] There were 160 stores across the Country as of December 2016. Emart is South Korea's oldest and largest discount store chain, with a total ...

  3. List of markets in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2015) Major cities in South Korea typically have several traditional markets, each with vendors selling a wide variety of goods including fruit, vegetables, meat, fish, breads, clothing, textiles, handicrafts, souvenirs, and Korean traditional medicinal items. The Korean word for market is sijang and traditional street ...

  4. Coupang - Wikipedia

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    Coupang delivery truck in Seoul, 2017. Coupang, Inc. ( Korean: 쿠팡) is e-commerce company based in Seoul, South Korea and Seattle, WA and incorporated in Delaware, United States. [4] [5] Founded in 2010 by Bom Kim, the company expanded to become the largest online marketplace in South Korea. Its expansion led the company to video streaming ...

  5. G-Market - Wikipedia

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    Headquarters. Seoul, South Korea. Parent. G-Market Global [a] Website. gmarket .co .kr. Gmarket is an e-commerce website based in South Korea. The company was founded in 2000 as a subsidiary of Interpark, [2] and was acquired by eBay in 2009, [3] who subsequently sold it to Shinsegae at 3.4 trillion Korean Won. [4]

  6. Yongsan Electronics Market - Wikipedia

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    Yongsan Electronics Market ( Korean : 용산전자상가) is a retail area in Seoul, South Korea. Comprising over 20 buildings, housing 5,000 stores that sell appliances, stereos, computers and peripherals, office equipment, telephones, lighting equipment, electronic games and software, videos and CD's. A variety of electronic components for ...

  7. 1997 Asian financial crisis - Wikipedia

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    In the wake of the Asian market downturn, Moody's lowered the credit rating of South Korea from A1 to A3, on 28 November 1997, and downgraded again to B2 on 11 December. That contributed to a further decline in South Korean shares since stock markets were already bearish in November. The Seoul stock exchange fell by 4% on 7 November 1997. On 8 ...

  8. Shopping in Seoul - Wikipedia

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    The Yongsan Electronics Market of Seoul is the largest electronics market in Asia. The market specializes in electronic goods as well as computer parts, of which South Korea is a major world producer of and it contains approximately 5,000 stores housed in 22 buildings. This area can be accessed via Yongsan Station or Sinyongsan Station.

  9. Shinsegae - Wikipedia

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    Shinsegae ( Korean : 신세계 ; Hanja : 新世界 ; lit. new world, KRX: 004170) is a South Korean department store franchise, along with several other businesses, headquartered in Seoul, South Korea. The firm is an affiliate of Shinsegae Group, South Korea's leading retail chaebol, and one of the big three department store firms in Korea ...