Shop 'til you Drop

Some more neighbourhood dogs today , unfortunately tied up as usual.
The little guy was furiously wagging his tail but was very afraid when I tried to approach. The larger white dog was barking like mad and appeared to want to make me his lunch. I could hear a human voice telling the dogs to be quiet, but i could'nt see anyone through the grimy shop front.

This store is one of the many small businesses run by older Koreans that appear to make zero profit. This one was a bike shop, but the used bikes for sale outside were ancient and had been parked there for so long they were gathering rust.
I can only assume that these places - once more successful in a Korea now changed beyond recognition - pay little or no fees, and the owners live in the building, running the shops almost out of habit, simply as a way to keep busy.


'All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. '
- Anatole France