For years, South Korea’s beauty shopping map seemed fixed: Olive Young at the center, flanked by department stores on one end and bargain channels on the other. That hierarchy is now quietly shifting.
The country’s dollar-store chain Daiso, long associated with household essentials and impulse buys, is emerging as an unlikely but increasingly influential beauty destination.
What stands out is not simply the presence of low-priced cosmetics, but who
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