"Riding the KTX, flocking from across the nation"…The bakery earning a monstrous 60 billion won [Kim Ik-hwan's Buddhist Hands Up]

Two days before Christmas, on the 23rd, customers were lining up in the area around Sungsimdang in Jung-gu, Daejeon, to buy bread. /Photo=News1 "I almost froze to death while waiting in line." A 20-something man and woman who boarded the KTX last winter said this with a large Sungsimdang shopping bag in their arms. About one in ten passengers on the afternoon KTX to Seoul Station and Yongsan Station was carrying a Sungsimdang shopping bag. Although the high-quality smell of bread attracts attention, the difficulty of standing in line for several hours is something people can't even imagine. Sungsimdang has attracted bread lovers from all over the country with its reputation for "value for money." It recorded 64.3 billion won in operating profit last year. This is more than the combined operating profits of the top two domestic bakery franchises, Paris Baguette and Tteukseung, which together amount to 54.2 billion won. It is also evaluated to have a significant impact on the local ...