A salesman makes his pitch with help from a primate friend.

Pets are gaining in popularity in Korea, perhaps because of increasing prosperity. Small dogs are favored, cats are rejected, and monkeys and chimpanzees are somewhere in between.

This vendor was selling lotus seed at the Tano Festival in June. He claimed that, like the many other animal and vegetable tonics that the health-conscious Koreans favor, it would remove impurities and poisons from the body.

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