In Myeong-dong, street vendors take your trash

The Korea Herald · Lim Jae-seong ·

In Seoul’s Myeong-dong shopping district, visitors looking for somewhere to toss a coffee cup or snack wrapper can hand it to a street vendor, even if they did

Seoul still has fewer public trash bins than it did in 1995, despite recent efforts to install more

In Seoul’s Myeong-dong shopping district, visitors looking for somewhere to toss a coffee cup or snack wrapper can hand it to a street vendor, even if they didn't buy anything at the stall.

A total 364 vendors participating in a local cleanup campaign have agreed to accept trash from food and drinks bought elsewhere.

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