South Korea has a land mass a bit larger than Indiana. Not only must it make maximum use of its limited arable land, it can't always afford to devote space exclusively for food processing. So one often sees peppers and other crops laid out to dry in public areas such as this sidewalk.

This would be almost unimaginable in the States. First, it's not really necessary, since we have plenty of extra land to devote to food processing. Also, health departments would probably frown on foodstuffs left on the sidewalk.

The fact that Koreans simply step around the peppers and other drying crops demonstrates another reason, and a cultural difference worthy of some thought. In most American cities, there'd surely be a greater risk that someone would step on the produce, either deliberately or accidentally. That just doesn't seem to happen in Korea.

By the way, the business shown above isn't a market or a restaurant. It's a beauty parlor.