The Age of E-Mart Under Moon Jae-in

South Korea’s first branch of E-mart, now the country’s largest retailer and originally inspired by Walmart, opened in November 1993. That was about four years after the country’s first convenience store, the Seven Eleven near the Olympic Village in Seoul, appeared. It’s hard to imagine a South Korea without E-marts or convenience stores. These days, every major city has at least one branch of E-mart (and/or of competitors such as Homeplus, Lotte Mart, and what have you). Every street corner in