South Korea’s dopamine sites simulate shopping without spending
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South Korea’s dopamine sites simulate shopping without spending
For anyone who has ever filled an online shopping cart just to close the tab, South Korea's latest internet fixation may feel less bizarre than uncomfortably familiar.A new wave of so-called "dopamine sites" is recreating the experience of online shopping and food delivery without the part where users actually spend money. You can browse fake products or food menus, read reviews, add items to a cart, enter an address, place an order, and, in som…
Buenos Aires, 23 June (NA) -- A difficult-to-understand phenomenon is happening in South Korea. It’s about the arrival of platforms that host fictional online stores that offer “virtual dopamine” by simulating purchases. According to the Argentine News Agency, this trend is booming among young people in that Asian country, who choose to use websites or apps that mimic online shopping platforms to the smallest detail to make a shopping experience.
In South Korea, "dopamine sites" — sites that simulate food delivery or a break for a cigarette — are not ordered or smoked for real, but merely recreate the ritual itself, Korea Times writes.
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