Korean stores

I saw a few department stores in Seoul, but for the most part the markets and stores seem to be specialized, owner operated. 

Each store has one focus, and they seem to be in clumps of similar stores. In the little market, fish stores were all grouped together, clothing stores, spice stores, etc. Our hotel in Jeon-ju was clearly in a hardware section, because there was a lot of ladders.

Large sidewalk displays are common. They look like huge piles to me.  At night,  they are covered with tarp. No one seems too worried about thieves.

Typical Korean store (and even many restaurants) seems to be about 15-18 feet wide and about 30 ft long. Theres a tiny place for the owner to hang out when there are  no customers, or a tiny kitchen to prepare the food.

The typical table setting is containers of water, which is poured by lowest rank person or host and given to the highest rank person first.  There's a little box of non-absorbant napkins, about a folded cocktail napkin size,  but one-ply. Theres almost always a individually wrapped wet wipe. Spoon and chop sticks.

If the restaurant is full,  you'll get an X (forearms crossed in front of the body), and you find somewhere else to eat.