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South Korean Music Retailers Dying

Posted by timothy on from the buggywhip-makers-dying-in-streets dept.

terrymaster69 writes "According to this Reuters feature, 95% of South Korean music retail businesses have failed in the last year. 'While South Korea is not alone in seeing a downturn, the drop has been greatly accentuated and particularly deep because of the country's high-speed Internet access and a youth culture that uses some of the most sophisticated gadgets available.' Is this really a problem or just a natural progression?"

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  1. Obligatory Anti Bush Thread by TheNarrator · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm going to start the obligatory anti-bush thread since it seems to be appearing in almost every story no matter how non-sequiter the connection.

  2. Re:That's it... by polecat_redux · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm quite worried about their No-Dong missiles.

    OK, so they have "no dong", but I wonder if they have they balls to use them...