"Emergency medicines should be sold not only at convenience stores 24 hours a day,,,,,,, but also in other places."

Some of the expired emergency medicine that Ms. Oh Jeong-ja had kept

Grandmother Kim Bok-soon (85) had to get on a bus to Deoggwa-myeon, Namwon-si, Jeollabuk-do, a 'drug-free village,' and travel to a place that takes at least 2~3 hours to travel between home and pharmacy to buy medicine. Deoggwa-myeon in Namwon City has always been a ' drug-free village' with no convenience stores selling over-the-counter medicines or public late-night pharmacies, and even nearby convenience stores selling over-the-counter medicines have stopped selling. Grandma Oh Jeong-ja (in her 80s), who lives alone in Deoggwa-myeon, had piles of expired medicines, Because pharmacies are far away and they can be taken immediately when needed, they are more like daily necessities rather than emergency use. Since there is nowhere to buy them before digestive aids, fever reducers, and antidiarrheals run out in emergencies, they have to buy several in advance when going out to town , so many of them are long past their expiration dates. Currently, the decline in stores selling emergency medicine is said to be both in provincial and metropolitan areas, with the largest rate of decline concentrated mostly in county-level provinces. Retailers  You might wonder what a few stores are doing, but for local residents, the distance they have to travel to buy medicine is essentially a major change that means their last option has disappeared. Due to stagnant growth and worsening profitability in the convenience store industry , closures and restructuring are ongoing, and even remaining stores are increasingly giving up on 24-hour operations due to labor costs,,,, Under the current system, over-the-counter medicines can only be sold at 24-hour convenience stores,,, but they should be allowed to be sold at non-24-hour convenience stores!!!!!!!!