One purchase every 0.9 second: Olive Young foreign sales top W1tr

CJ Olive Young saw 1 trillion won ($727 million) in annual foreign sales through August, putting it three months ahead of last year's pace, as tourists spread purchases past Seoul and across the country. According to the retailer Monday, the milestone, which took until November to reach last year, came on 11.01 million foreign transactions over the same period, or roughly one purchase every 0.9 second during store hours. Foreign shoppers, who came from 192 countries and territories according to