Gangnam Hair Salon Will Style Your Barnet For Bitcoin
If you find yourself in the Gangnam district of Seoul in desperate need of a makeover and only bitcoin to hand, you're in luck. The area, made famous by Psy's world-conquering 2012 hit song 'Gangnam Style', now has a bitcoin-accepting hair and beauty salon, called With Beauty Salon. Their head of marketing, Lee Kyung Won, told a local blogger he hoped that bitcoin would "attract trend-setters who are the kind of people we are looking for as customers". The blogger, Kim Dong-Hyun, appears to have been their first bitcoin-paying customer on 2nd January. It's not clear what treatment the....
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