'I'm not promoting devil worship'
Kim and Danny Chung in their shop in Tralee this week.
Wednesday March 10 2010
THE owner of a Tralee goth and punk clothes shop says she's dismayed at rumours that her shop is selling legal drugs and devil worship paraphernalia.
Kim Chung, who opened 'Grotesque' a gothic and punk clothing store in the Tralee Shopping Centre last August, told The Kerryman she has become the victim of a nasty rumour campaign by people who claim she is promoting devil worship or selling, so called, legal highs.
According to Kim, whose shop sells gothic and punk clothes and jewellery, the rumours are having an impact on her business and she's eager to make sure people don't get the wrong impression about what's available in her store.
"I've had people coming in asking why I don't believe in God and why I'm promoting devil worship which, of course, I'm not," she said. "I feel gothic and punk fashion is a form of art and that's all we're selling."
"It's getting to the point where I'm just waiting for someone to bring along a priest to bless the place," she told The Kerryman.
Kim sais she is also concerned that people think the store is a head shop which sells legal highs and other drug-related items.
"I've had young fellas in sussing me out. Seeing do I sell this and that and telling me I should stock these legal highs which have nothing to do with what my business is all about," she said.
"My business has absolutely nothing to do with drugs or devil worship or anything like that. I'm worried about my reputation and my kids' reputations and I want to make sure no-one has the wrong impression about us."
- SIMON BROUDER
