Beer flying off shelves at PyeongChang Olympics

Customers buy products at a PyeongChang convenience store. / Courtesy of CU

By Jung Min-ho

Beer is the best-selling product at convenience stores in PyeongChang and Gangneung _ two host cities of the 2018 Winter Games.

CU, a convenience store franchise chain, said Tuesday that beer was the top-selling product at its 20 stores across the cities from Feb. 9 to 18.

The second best-selling product was wine, followed by whiskey and instant cup ramen.

Beer, wine and whiskey accounted for 25.3 percent of the sales. Soju, a traditional Korean liquor, was sixth.

CU said about half its customers were non-Koreans during the period.