Investments That Pay When Korean Workaholics Play
South Korea’s shift toward work-life balance is leading to tasty — some literally — investment opportunities in the market.
Sammy Suzuki
December 17, 2025
Pedestrians holding umbrellas walk past a Starbucks Corp. store in the Myeongdong shopping district in this photograph taken with a tilt-shift lens in Seoul, South Korea, on Saturday, July 18, 2015. A report on July 23 may show that South Korea's economy expanded 2.3 percent in the second quarter, which would be the slowest pace in more than two years, according to the median estimate in a Bloomberg survey. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
