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 weighing between 0.1 gram and 1.87 gram have been up for sale at CU outlets since April.
Priced at 113,000 won each, 1 gram bars were sold out within two days, according to local news reports.
This was the sharpest quarterly increase in gold purchases in South Korea in more than two years, WGC noted.
Organizations:
Printing Corporation, Gold
Locations:
Korea, South Korea