There's a new Korean Lotte hotel at Wacker and Wabash. Why it matters: L7 Chicago by Lotte marks the brand's U.S. debut and places Korean culture and hospitality in the middle of downtown for the ...

The store the creator visited was Lotteria L7, the company's first unmanned "smart-store’" based Seoul suburb of Hongdae. "The McDonald's of South Korea are living in 2050," she wrote in the ...