I went to a Lotte Outlet in the provinces and I was shocked

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I went on a trip to Buyeo.
There is a resort at a place called the Buyeo Cultural Complex,
and there is also a Lotte Outlet there.
The scale is huge, similar to the outlets in the Gyeonggi area.
It's clean, and they did a great job with the Hanok (traditional Korean house) design.
At first, I thought, "Oh, everyone in the Chungcheong region must shop here,"
but
to my surprise,
there were almost no people. It felt like a ghost town.
It wasn't the weekend; I went around 5-6 PM on a Friday.
My girlfriend wanted to eat Sotteok-Sotteok (sausage and rice cake skewers), so we bought some at a place inside the outlet.
When I put the trash in the bin,
the inside of the trash can was perfectly clean without a single piece of litter.
I couldn't even fathom how few people there actually are.
The population of Buyeo itself is only 50,000, and the surrounding cities are all rural areas.
Daejeon would have to support it, but it's surprisingly far from Daejeon,
so it just doesn't work.
I was at the point where I wondered why on earth the Lotte Group
built a large-scale outlet here.