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※ This video is part of the <Only Earth - Three Meals a Day at Convenience Stores> broadcast on November 20, 2015. Do you know about the new Korean population, the one-way tribe? One of the top three guitarists in Korea and a hidden master of the convenience store industry, Kim Do-gyun! He has been eating two meals a day at a convenience store near his home for 10 years. The convenience store points that Kim Do-gyun has accumulated alone amount to 880,000 points, and the actual amount he has spent at convenience stores is a whopping 88 million won. These days, his favorite convenience store meal is a lunch box with lots of tofu and stir-fried kimchi. Recently, the number of people like Kim Do-gyun has been increasing explosively. The fact that the sales growth rate of convenience store lunch boxes has skyrocketed by around 50% compared to the previous year is proof of this. The convenience store industry is carrying out aggressive marketing to continue this expansion. Convenience stores are increasing their competitiveness by offering low prices in the 3,000 to 4,000 won range, 70 kinds of lunch boxes armed with 6 to 11 side dishes, and various meal replacement foods such as tteokbokki, pig's feet, and pizza. Convenience stores are evolving from simple general stores of the past to full-fledged 'restaurants'. This trend has even created a new word meaning 'people who solve their meals with convenience store lunch boxes'. They are the new human race called 'Pyeondojok'. What if you eat three meals a day with convenience store food? Shocking results in just one week! We asked one question here. "How much can you trust convenience store food?" This is also a question that Pyeondojok who use convenience store lunch boxes have in common. According to one survey, only 16.8% of convenience store users responded that they trust convenience store food. EBS One Earth decided to check this out for themselves. It is the so-called convenience store three meals a day experiment. Four applicants, consisting of college students, job seekers, and freelance workers, ate only convenience store food for three meals a day for a week. They compared the test results for a total of 23 items, including blood sugar, cholesterol, and insulin, before and after the experiment. But after a week. The attending physician, the subjects of the experiment, and the production crew were all shocked. What on earth were the results that made everyone so surprised? What happened to these people during the week when they ate only convenience store food for three meals a day? This Friday at 8:50, EBS will reveal the shocking results of the convenience store three meals a day experiment. Can environmental hormones in convenience store food be reduced?! Convenience store healthy lunchbox development project The biggest limitations of convenience store food are environmental hormones and serious nutritional imbalances. The EBS One Earth production crew looked for alternatives that allow people to eat convenience store food more safely and healthily. Academia (Seoul National University Professor Yoon Ji-hyun's research team), Seoul City, and Company C came together to start a project to develop a 'healthy lunchbox'. They also presented specific ways to reduce environmental hormones when eating food from convenience stores. The first convenience store health lunch box development project in Korea to raise issues about the quality of convenience store food and find alternatives. What will the 'convenience store health lunch box' look like after a month of discussion among the public, private, and academic circles? ✔ Program name: The Only Earth - Three Meals a Day at Convenience Stores ✔ Broadcast date: 2015.11.20 #GolladyeonDocumentary #TheOnlyEarth #Documentary #Documentary #HealthDocumentary #Health #Nutrients #NutritionalImbalance #ConvenienceStore #ConvenienceStoreFood #ConvenienceStoreLunchBox #ConvenienceMeal #LunchBox