Next time you pass through London's Heathrow airport, simply drop into a duty-free shop.

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South Korean consumers are not naturally averse to foreign brands as any visitor to a duty-free shop in Asia will have noticed.

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Once a duty-free shop, it's now decorated with flags, unit patches, pins, photos and other items given to the Maine Troop Greeters as a show of appreciation from the many units that have passed through the airport.

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The security line in which I waited for 15 minutes was urgently evacuated by a group of Polizei bearing machine guns, and I had to follow my line-colleauges through a beer garden and a duty-free shop to find another checkpoint with another 15-minute security line.

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It is a great diving spot, thanks to the red coral that gives the Red Sea its name, but as a duty-free destination where people come to shop, the city has ambitions to be more like Dubai.

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