‘Customers vanished overnight’: Homeplus closures hit small tenants

The fallout from Homeplus’ decision to suspend operations at stores nationwide is spreading beyond the retailer itself, with small business owners inside the affected branches reporting plunging sales and growing uncertainty over their livelihoods. The major supermarket chain, currently under corporate rehabilitation proceedings, began temporarily suspending operations at 37 of its 104 stores on Sunday as part of its "emergency restructuring plan" that seeks to concentrate resources on profitabl

By The Korea Herald