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I've been noticing that these four main food chain stores are spreading all over Seoul, at a very scary speed -- Paris Croissant & Baguette, Dunkin, Baskin-Robbins 31, and Coffee Bean. Almost every new "coming soon" stores downtown have been one of these four, except a Burger King (great). It had never creeped me out though, until I went to the Incheon Airport to drop off Matt about a week ago: I really wanted a smoothie from this cute smoothie place they had, but it as gone; in fact, most of the places that offered a huge range of food choices had been replaced by one of those four. It reminded me of those arguments you hear everywhere -- such as losing diversity in nature by breeding only certain types of grains or animal stocks for maximum profits, or conglomerates putting small startups out of business -- and for the first time, it really got to me.