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Seoul steals: Cost-saving tips and the city’s best shopping hacks
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The Straits Times rounds up a set of tried-and-tested hacks to help you stretch every dollar on your next shopping spree in Seoul.
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SEOUL – In a gleaming three-storey building devoted entirely to K-beauty are shelves lined with dozens of sunscreens, serums for every imaginable skin concern and a corner stocked with kombucha powders and probiotics that promise to bolster gut health.
Tourists form snaking queues that lead to half a dozen efficient cashiers who process instant tax refunds with assembly-line speed. Shoppers stream out carrying oversized paper bags stuffed with their haul.
