Convenience store sells items bigger than a convenience store

These days, you can buy almost anything at a convenience store, even a house.

2021-01-28

Convenience stores join war against plastic packaging

Convenience store chains are strengthening eco-friendly initiatives in the new year as the demand for disposable goods has declined in recent years with rising environmental consciousness.

2021-01-05

CU finds craft beer success through unexpected partnerships

Korea’s beer industry is booming with the rising popularity of domestic craft beers largely thanks to the growing popularity of homsul, or drinking at home, amid the prolonged coronavirus pandemic.

2020-12-13

CU to expand curbside pickup service to 3,000 stores

BGF Retail, operation of convenience store chain CU, plans to expand its curbside pickup service to 3,000 stores by the first half of 2021.

2020-12-10

One on every corner

BGF Retail Chairman Lee Keon-jun, right, hangs up a sign in Yatap-dong in Bundang, Gyeonggi, to celebrate the opening of the company's 15,000th CU convenience store on Monday.

2020-11-30

CU gets into the foreign exchange transaction business

BGF Retail inked a memorandum of understanding with the Utransfer money transfer service to get into financial technology, the companies announced Thursday.

2020-11-26