Upon moving to Korea, the first things I needed to procure were food and cigarettes. This was astonishingly simple even at 3am in the moderately small city of Jeonju. There are a gratuitous number of all night "Quik" stores that stock everthing a person, functioning soberly or drunkenly at 3 am, could need. Cigarettes and food are at the top of their inventory, along with alcohol (also sold around the clock).
Now, long before I started cooking for myself, I began to notice packaging of items purchased at the "Channel Q" mini-stop near my apartment. The wrappers and boxes themselves did not seem all that different, but what lay inside the packages and boxes did; more boxes and packages.
For instance, a box of "Lotte Chic-Choc" chocolate-chip cookies come six to a box. This may not seem odd, but they are the size of a normal "Chips-Ahoy" cookie and the box was roughly the same dimensions as a box of spaghetti. Upon opening the re-closeable, zipper-tear box I found each cookie individually wrapped in its own package, complete with nutritional information, "Chic-Choc" logo, and a bar code. This seemed extraneous, but little did i realize this would be the first of many encounters with superfluous packaging.
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ReplyDeletesorry I am posting a little late ehre. Didn't know you were up and running this until I saw hoopsies thing about the Korean winter.
Anyway, the chic chocs ARE way overpackaged, as are a number of other things in that country, but you must agree that the chic chocs are great, huh? nice and soft and good with soju...or is that something else????
Well, will link up to your site and try to stop by from time to time. Hope all is well with you in Korea.