Loretta Chao of the Wall Street Journal looks at the Olympic tradition of pin trading and talks to several Olympic pin fans. For those of you in Beijing and interested in taking a look at exactly what these pin traders do and how they bargain with each other, visit Coke’s "Shuang Zone" at Chaoyang Park.
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