South Korean retailers ‘ 12 • 12 Korea Black Friday ’, their own version of the US ’ s Black Friday , is drawing a great popularity . Some of retailers ’ websites are unable to access with a flood of customers . During the whole morning on Friday , ‘ Korea Black Friday ’ topped the list in the real time search word for the portal site Naver . Thanks to such explosive interests among consumers , Korea Black Friday is poised to settle as the nation ’ s leading event for retailers . For example , Lotte . com saw its number of online clients up over three times on Friday . An official at Lotte . com explained , “ to brace for traffic increases , we expanded our servers around three times more than before , but is insufficient to address connection delay . ” The ‘ iPhone 6 , ’ sold at half the prices by 11 st Street for users of its affiliated - credit card companies , was sold out on this day . Joining Korea Black Friday event , a growing number of stores arranged sales event on December 12 . Lotte Department Store , along with Lotte . com and El Lotte , will launch ‘ Lotte Black Holiday ’ from December 12 to 14 . [ ⓒ Maeil Business Newspaper & mk . co . kr , All rights reserved ]