The artist spent 20 years making amazing sketches of small shops in South Korea.

South Korean artist Me Keyong Lee sees beauty even in the most mundane phenomena. Her sketches of local shops are an amazing and talentedly created image of what most of us do not even notice in the bustle of everyday life.

For the past 20 years, Lee has been making wonderful "portraits" of such benches. “There weren’t as many things that could be played as today,” the artist tells of his childhood and youth. “But there was a time when I was happy to have a few coins in my hand and run to the store or just meet friends gathered in front of him. "

To outsiders, the importance of shops may seem strange, but given their astounding abundance in South Korea (33,000 today), it is natural that locals see them not as buildings, but as an integral part of traditional culture.