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Hands-on reviews of Korean convenience store meals from CU, GS25, 7-Eleven, and Emart24 — lunchboxes, kimbap, ready-to-eat dishes, cup noodles, and desserts. Honest verdicts on taste, price, calories, and which Korean CVS items are worth a try.
In Korea, the peak of summer brings boknal, the midsummer dog days when people load up on stamina food to beat the heat. Today’s pick rides exactly that wave: GS25’s new July Boknal Lunch Box, the latest entry in its monthly lunch box series. With a muggy summer and a dragging rainy season wearing everyone … Read more
Korean convenience stores love a good brand collaboration, and this one caught my eye: CU has teamed up with Ottogi for a pair of instant pastas — 3-Minute Meatball Spaghetti and 3-Minute Spicy Cream Pasta. If you know Korea, you know Ottogi’s “3-Minute” retort line; this basically drops instant spaghetti into that same format. It’s … Read more
Today’s new lunchbox from CU is the PBICK Jeyuk & Ganjang Bulbaek Double Set. As CU’s PBICK lunchbox lineup has settled into something of a steady rhythm, menus that feel like renewals of existing ones keep rolling out. Honestly, this one felt a bit removed from the “double sets” CU used to release. So let’s … Read more
Today’s new lunchbox from CU is the PBICK Hamburg Steak & Dakgangjeong Double Set. This one is quietly what you’d call a textbook convenience-store lunchbox. It has a reasonable number of sides, a decent portion, and solid value on top. True to CU PBICK’s slogan, you get a fair meal at a fair price, just … Read more
Hello! Today’s new lunchbox from Seven-Eleven is the Geureolssahan Ganjang Jjimdak Dosirak (“respectable soy-braised chicken lunchbox”), a collaboration with the hit webtoon-based drama about a legendary army mess cook. As the show has grown popular lately, CU, Emart24, GS25, and now Seven-Eleven have all rolled out versions at once. This menu, too, is said to … Read more