Fashion retailing, where and how to purchase

  In the late 1700s, Park Ji-won, a scholar of the Silhak school wrote the novel ‘The Story of Heo Saeng’. As a servant of King Jeongjo of the Joseon Dynasty, he, like other Silhak scholars, criticized the old feudalistic notion that ignored the prosperity of commerce.    Unfortunately, many feudal scholars, Seonbis + have held the view that commerce in which some goods are bought cheaply and sold at high prices is an immoral act of making money easily without working.   At that time, however, scholars of the Silhak school thought that commerce was productive like agriculture and manufacturing, and it compensates for the excess and shortage of production and consumption areas through exchange, and further increases national wealth with the surplus.   The main character of the novel, Heo Saeng, who was poor, first asked Mr. Byeon, a man of large property in Seoul, to borrow business funds to make money through commerce. Unreasonably, he asked the man of wealth to...