About this location
A few stories people tell about this place
1. In the aisles of H Mart, a regular once found an entire unopened jar of kimchi floating in mid-air above the shelves. No one else noticed it until he pointed and laughed. Confused and amused, everyone gathered around to see what was causing the commotion. The kimchi eventually settled back onto the shelf with a gentle thud, as if embarrassed by its brief levitation. A delivery driver joked that maybe the ghost of a Korean grandmother was ensuring their stock was fresh. Everyone laughed, and the mystery became part of H Mart’s urban legend.
2. In the frozen food section, a delivery driver swears he heard someone whispering behind him. When he turned around, there was no one there—just rows and rows of silent packages. Curious, the driver checked every aisle but found nothing out of place. Later that night, his neighbor knocked on his door with a bag of groceries. ‘Just wanted to make sure you were okay,’ she said with a smile. Turns out, it was her voice he’d heard echoing through the empty aisles.
3. In the produce section one morning, a delivery driver noticed something odd. ‘Did you hear that?’ he whispered to himself, glancing around quickly before continuing down the aisle. As he followed the sound, he saw an old watermelon rolling down the aisle, its rind making a strange humming noise. Startled, he looked around, but everyone else seemed oblivious. Shaking his head with a smile, he picked up the melon and continued his route, muttering, 'Must be one of those talking fruit from Korea.'
4. In the chilly early-morning hours, a delivery driver pulled up outside H Mart. As he loaded boxes into his truck, he noticed something peculiar—a small package wrapped in brown paper had appeared on the passenger seat. Who left it there? And why? Curious but cautious, the driver opened the package and found inside a warm Korean rice cake, freshly baked, with a note reading: ‘Hope your day starts sweetly!’ Turned out, it was from a neighbor who’d mistakenly placed it there earlier that morning. The delivery guy smiled, shook his head, and drove off, thinking, ‘Another mystery solved—by a free snack!’