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"No need to shell out big bucks on this season&amp;#x27;s It bag--at least not if you live in Korea, where paper shopping bags have become a status symbol all their own. According to the Wall Street Journal, there&amp;#x27;s currently a major market for the free paper satchels from luxury stores--and some women are actually willing to pay for them. &amp;quot;Such transactions are easily found on second-hand online shopping sites, where brand-name paper bags are traded for as much as $30,&amp;quot; they write. &amp;quot;A glance at bags for sale today shows one seller with four different kinds of paper bags from Burberry to Louis Vuitton at price tags around 25,000 won ($23). Another seller has a Burberry paper bag on sale at a more modest price of 5,000 won.&amp;quot; Sung Young-shin, a professor of consumer psychology of Korea University, explains the phenomenon like this: &amp;quot;In Korea&amp;amp;#8217;s collective culture, consumption is not just personal behavior. It is not so much about my need as it is about whether other people in my peer group have it. So if your next door neighbor has it, you should have it too.&amp;quot; I&amp;#x27;ve actually been known to hoard shopping bags--especially from special collections like Jimmy Choo for H&amp;amp;M or Zac Posen for Target--mostly as reminders of favorite purchases I&amp;#x27;ve made, but I can&amp;#x27;t imagine spending actual money on them! It&amp;#x27;s almost just a way to say, &amp;quot;Look, I bought something expensive,&amp;quot;...although, um, those people actually didn&amp;#x27;t. Kind of a strange little luxury trend, isn&amp;#x27;t it? Can you imagine paying $30 for a bag that&amp;#x27;s supposed to be free?! Does the allure of heavy orange Herm&amp;amp;eacute;s paper get you excited, too, or do you find this phenomenon a little ridiculous? Do you hold on to fancy shopping bags? Would you ever buy one? What do you think about the extreme love of luxury and labels in Korea? Discuss! PLUS... - What would be on your lottery wish list? Most women say Louboutins and Tiffany jewelry! AND! - Study says receiving designer goods as a gift could trigger a spending spree More Ways to Get Glamour: Chat with celebs, VIP fashion stars, beauty pros and more on our Facebook page! Visit Facebook.com/glamour for this month&amp;amp;#8217;s schedule Get the latest fashion updates via Twitter on @glamour_fashion Check out our chic Tumblr! Read Glamour magazine on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). And, did you know you can read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster. Photo: Bloomberg via Getty Images Want even more STF? Follow us on Twitter! Latest Tweets!Follow us on Twitter!jQuery(&amp;quot;.blog-tweets&amp;quot;).tweet({username:[&amp;quot;glamour_fashion&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;cindi_leive&amp;quot;], count: 3}); "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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