{
  "id": 19067954,
  "title": "CJ Olive Young to open 5 more US stores by mid-2027, expanding to San Diego",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/cj-olive-young-to-open-5-more-us-stores-by-mid-2027-expanding-to-san",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-09T02:22:03.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Korea Times",
    "slug": "the-korea-times",
    "url": "https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/business/companies/20261109/cj-olive-young-to-open-5-more-us-stores-by-mid-2027-expanding-to-san-diego"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "CJ Olive Young, the largest health and beauty retailer in South Korea, plans to expand its presence in the United States by opening five additional stores by mid-2027, bringing its total number of U.S. locations to seven. The company announced this expansion on Monday. Its first U.S. store opened in Pasadena in May, and a second location was established at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles in June. The new stores will be strategically located in the greater Los Angeles area, with four of them set to open at Spectrum Center, Del Amo Fashion Center, Bloom on 3rd, and Brea Mall. The fifth store will be situated in Fashion Valley, San Diego, marking CJ Olive Young's first foray outside the Los Angeles region. Specific opening dates for each location have not been disclosed. Three of the planned sites, namely Del Amo Fashion Center, Brea Mall, and Fashion Valley, are managed by Simon Property Group, a prominent mall owner in the United States. The company believes that this expansion will enable small and independent Korean cosmetics brands, collectively referred to as K-beauty, to effectively reach American consumers without requiring their own distribution networks.",
  "summary": "CJ Olive Young, Korea’s largest health and beauty store chain, will open five more stores in California by the first half of 2027, bringing its U.S. total to seven, the company said Monday. The retailer opened its first U.S. store in Pasadena in May and a second at Westfield Century City in Los Angeles in June. Four of the new stores will be in the greater Los Angeles area: Spectrum Center, a…",
  "key_points": [
    "CJ Olive Young to open 5 more US stores by mid-2027",
    "Stores to be located in Los Angeles and San Diego",
    "Four new stores at Spectrum Center, Del Amo, Bloom, Brea Mall"
  ],
  "editors_take": "Expanding into major Southern California malls provides a critical retail gateway for independent K-beauty brands to access American consumers without the burden of building their own distribution networks.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Yonhap News",
        "title": "CJ Olive Young to operate 7 U.S. stores by H1 2027",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/09/cj-olive-young-to-operate-7-u-s-stores-by-h1-2027",
        "published": "2026-11-09T00:58:11.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}