Aside from ramen and sausages, South Korea’s convenience stores have a new popular item on the menu — gold bars.
The country’s largest convenience store chain, CU, has been collaborating with the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation (KOMSCO) to offer customers mini gold bars — and they’re selling like hot cakes.
People in their 30s were most active in purchasing these gold bars, accounting for over 41% of the total sales since their launch, according to CU’s commerce phone app Pocket CU. Those in their 40s make up 35.2% of the sales, followed by people in their 50s at 15.6%. People in their 20s accounted for 6.8% of all sales.
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Aside from ramen and sausages, South Korea’s convenience stores have a new popular item on the menu — gold bars.
The country’s largest convenience store chain, CU, has been collaborating with the Korea Minting and Security Printing Corporation (KOMSCO) to offer customers mini gold bars — and they’re selling like hot cakes.
A variety of[ finger-nail sized gold bars](https://www.instagram.com/cu_official/p/C5NvkRNvBAy/?locale=ne_NP&hl=ar&img_index=2) weighing between 0.1 gram and 1.87 gram have been up for sale at CU outlets since April. A 1.87 gram bar sells for 225,000 won ($165.76) and a 0.5 gram bar sells for 77,000 won.
Priced at 113,000 won each, 1 gram bars were [sold out within two days](https://biz.chosun.com/distribution/channel/2024/04/25/46PWZ7XQGRG7FFYPMJR42WQJTA/), according to local news reports. The bars come with congratulatory messages, birthday wishes and even designs for personality types.
People in their 30s were most active in purchasing these gold bars, accounting for over 41% of the total sales since their launch, according to CU’s commerce phone app Pocket CU. Those in their 40s make up 35.2% of the sales, followed by people in their 50s at 15.6%. People in their 20s accounted for 6.8% of all sales.
More: [https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/08/gold-is-selling-like-hot-cakes-in-koreas-convenience-stores-vending-machines.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/08/gold-is-selling-like-hot-cakes-in-koreas-convenience-stores-vending-machines.html)
Gotta save in something that’ll hold and/or increase in value