Mixture types of pharmacy/convenience store opened

BGF Retail Co., one of the Korea’s leading convenience chains, said on October 2 that it has opened two CU stores (formerly Family Mart) in Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, some 400 kilometers southeast of Seoul.

The country's first-ever drug store-type shops incorporate pharmacies into convenience stores.

The new type of stores was set up after the Korean government passed legislati...