In the Korean language, “han” refers to all living things on earth, while “salim” means to revive and give life. So the compound “Hansalim” means “save all living things”. An ambitious name, but then Hansalim, Korea’s biggest consumers’ cooperative, is an ambitious project. Founded in 1986 as a single grocery store, it now has 284,000 consumer members, 2,000 producer members, 328 employees, 131 [...]