Holiday Ayo - Have you seen many restaurants with their own take out system? Of course you often see and also experience it. This system is referred to as self-service. With this system, you will be faster and easier to buy food or other items.

In order to support this quick and easy system, many countries already have self-service shops. One of them is Korea.  

South Korea is known as a high individualist country. Recently, many shops have sprung up that provide self service services. These shops provide food which customers can pick up themselves.

Due to the self service, the shop does not have employees waiting inside. These shops are equipped with surveillance cameras or CCTV to prevent theft.

As cited from Korea By Me and other sources, there are 3 self service shops that are present in Korea. Such as a ramyeon shop, ice cream, and various instant foods. These shops are popular with locals as well as foreign tourists

Here are 3 self-service shops that are present in Korea, which can be visited during the holidays:

1. Ramyeon Shop (Ramen Convenion Store 24 Hours)

There are shops with self-serve customers that provide ramyeon menus. Like the shop that YouTuber Bianca Kartika visited some time ago.

The ramyeon shop has a two-story area. The bottom is used to select and mix the ramyeon. Not only ramyeon, but there are also various toppings, such as bean sprouts, pickled radish, cheese, green onions, kimchi, eomuk, to eggs.

The ramyeon cooking equipment in this shop is very complete, so customers can easily mix it. The second floor of this ramyeon shop has a comfortable dining area. There is a complete set of cutlery available.

2. Ice Cream Shop

As cited from Korea By Me, self service shops in Korea also offer ice cream. The shop is similar to a mini market, but most of the contents are ice cream freezer.

The ice cream offered by this self-service shop is very diverse. Starting from chocolate-flavored cup ice cream to coffee, mochi ice cream, ice cream sticks, to unique ice cream that only exists in Korea.

Like other shops, this ice cream shop also has no employees, only monitored by CCTV. The payment process also directly uses an automatic cashier in the form of a unique vending machine.

3. Instant Food Shop (MealKit Food Mart)

In addition to those that offer ramyeon, there is also a self service shop for various instant foods or ready-to-eat foods that can be cooked in the microwave. The store is MealKit Food Mart, as reported by Korea By Me.

There are Korean instant foods, such as tteokbokki, mandu, and hotteok. There are also Western foods such as pasta. This instant food is offered with prices ranging from 2,000 Won - 15,000 Won (IDR 22 thousand - IDR 164 thousand) per serving.

MealKit Food Mart is suitable for those of you who want to eat fast. Because it only takes 2-3 minutes to heat it in the microwave.