SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — True to form the latest Michelin Guide Seoul recommends the best places to eat in South Korea’s capital city with posh five-star hotel restaurants to small noodle places being lauded for their culinary excellence and service. Its third edition, which once again demonstrated its love for local cuisine, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. is adding 300 more ‘cashless shops’ in addition to the 103 stores currently in operation, starting on Monday. Cashless stores recommend that customers use a means of payment other than cash. The company noted that adding 300 more cashless stores would amount to one-third of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The Michelin Guide on Thursday announced its selection of 26 restaurants in Seoul with unique cuisine and quality, including two new two-star eateries. Two restaurants — fine dining Korean restaurant Gaon and La Yeon, a traditional Korean cuisine restaurant at Hotel Shilla — maintained three-star ratings for a third [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Approximately 1 out of 10 franchised stores selling coffee and beverages shut down last year due to sluggish sales and other factors. Experts cite heightened competition within the saturated franchise market as the main issue, resulting in a wider polarization between successful and unsuccessful franchise business outlets. According to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Some 10,000 yogurt carts — small movable vending stations selling yogurt products that are ubiquitous in South Korean towns and cities — will be used as platforms to measure fine dust levels across the country. SK Telecom Co. announced on Monday that it will be introducing a fine dust [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — A festival of traditional Korean food, known as hansik in Korean, kicked off in Seoul on Thursday as South Korea pushes to promote the country’s food culture around the world, the government said. The two-day 2018 World Hansik Festival, featuring cooking shows by star chefs and a program of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The proliferation of delivery service apps due to the rise of single-person households and the ubiquity of smartphones among the mass public combined with the monopolistic structure that these delivery services have created has resulted in an onerous burden for restaurant owners. Addressing this very issue, the Korea Franchise [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Dairy exports to China are recovering quickly this year after a steep dive in 2017 due to a diplomatic spat, industry officials said Monday. Maeil Dairies Co. is estimated to have increased its exports to China by 20 to 30 percent in the first six months of this year [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Food and Drug Safety revealed today that it was planning to inspect so-called “diet drinks” made from fermented pineapple vinegar. The ministry went through 74 petitions that were posted online between June 8 and August 31 and chose to investigate the fermented pineapple vinegar drink that [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With an increasing number of South Korean women opting to work instead of staying at home, and as simple eating habits grow in popularity, e-commerce websites offering side dishes are making great strides. Last year, the market for online sales of side dishes surpassed 100 billion won, and with [...]