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Who needs a bartender when you have a Korean convenience store? From fizzy soju cocktails to the classic somaek, here are eight easy drink combinations you can make with everyday Korean beverages.

Korea has a café on practically every corner, but Instagram has everyone mixing their own drinks at convenience stores. From banana milk lattes to colorful sparkling sodas, here are eight Korean convenience-store drink combinations worth trying, with easy recipes you can recreate yourself.

Growing up Korean American, I never questioned why toilet paper was a perfectly normal housewarming gift. But as I got older, I started bringing fancy candles and soaps instead. So why is this unusual tradition still so popular in Korea? And what other gifts are considered lucky—or unlucky?