SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea rose 8.8 percent on-year in July as eased COVID-19 restrictions bolstered demand for travel and leisure services, and online grocery shopping continued to grow, data showed Thursday. The value of online shopping transactions came to 17 trillion won (US$12.6 billion) in July, compared with [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Singapore-based e-commerce firm Qoo10 plans to acquire TMON Inc. through a stock swap deal, industry sources said Thursday. TMON’s two major shareholders — Anchor Equity Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. — have agreed on the stock swap deal with Qoo10, according to the sources. Under the deal, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean consumers are generally satisfied with live commerce, or TV home shopping-style mobile shopping, but the biggest cause of complaints lies in frequent buffering, a poll showed Sunday. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Consumer Agency of 1,500 adult consumers who had purchased products through five [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-grocery startup Market Kurly has partnered with RedMart, a Singaporean online grocery giant, to sell Korean food online in the Southeast Asian city-state, its operator said Thursday. Under a partnership agreement formally signed Wednesday, the South Korean company began selling 44 ready-to-eat frozen food products in Singapore [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — E-commerce giant Coupang Inc. said Thursday its second-quarter operating loss narrowed sharply from a year earlier on resilient sales. Operating loss stood at US$67.14 million in the April-June period, down 87 percent from a year earlier, the New York-listed e-commerce behemoth said in a regulatory filing. It represents the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — SSG.com, the online mall arm of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Group, ranked first in terms of per-transaction settlement amount among South Korea’s major e-commerce platforms, a credit rating firm said Wednesday. NICE Investors Service analyzed the average settlement amount per transaction at major e-commerce platforms for the period [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea rose around 10 percent in June from a year ago as the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions boosted demand for travel and leisure services and food, data showed Monday. The value of online shopping transactions came to 16.8 trillion won (US$12.9 billion) in June, up [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food company Fresheasy said Tuesday its meal-kit products will be made available on three Singapore e-commerce platforms — Shopee, Lazada and Qoo10 — as it tries to expand its market presence in Southeast Asia. Fresheasy is a South Korean food startup that makes ready-to-eat meal products of [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — GS Shop, a TV shopping division of GS Retail Co., said Wednesday it will introduce Netflix’s new South Korean series in a ‘home shopping’ show. The company will air a television show that introduces the Netflix Korean-language original series “Remarriage & Desires” on July 13. The show will mimic [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Fierce competition in the online shopping industry, which enjoyed massive growth during the pandemic, is resulting in declining brand value for some of the major players, an appraisal website showed Thursday. Brandstock, a South Korean market research firm that determines rankings of the top 100 local brands, said in [...]