SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite a number of controversies surrounding the CEO of Zara Korea, high clothing prices, and little to no social contributions, soaring sales of the Spanish fashion brand in South Korea show no sign of peaking soon, with the chairman the of the company’s local partner LOTTE awarded a royal [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – A local company will sign a contract to export 300 billion won (US$268 million) worth of bee venom mask packs to China this week, the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs said Sunday. The signing ceremony will be held at the Convention and Exhibition Center (COEX) in southeastern Seoul on Monday between Beesen Co. and China’s DIA Group, the ministry said, adding Beesen has developed the technology [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Online shopping malls are fast losing customer traffic, industry data showed Thursday, compounding their massive business losses last year. According to the data, the number of unique visitors to the six top online shopping sites totaled 84.86 million last month. This is 9.2 percent less than the same month [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Corp. was picked as the top firm for its business performance among the country’s major 500 companies, data showed Tuesday, beating Samsung Electronics Co. According to the data compiled by industry tracker CEO Score, South Korea’s No. 1 Internet portal operator received top remarks in a business evaluation that centered on eight areas, including earnings, investment, job creation and transparency. While Naver stood as the [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Last year, South Korea’s rental services market was estimated at 25.9 trillion won ($23.2 billion), up from 19.5 trillion won five years ago, according to the KT Economic Management Research Institute. By 2020, the market is expected to grow to a 40.1-trillion-won industry, researchers expect. The boon in the [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Philip Morris International Inc. said Wednesday its new e-cigarette device that contains tobacco leaves will go on sale in South Korea starting early next month. The local unit of the global tobacco company, Philip Morris Korea, said IQOS, the brand of its new tobacco product, will be available in Seoul [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Demand is high for overseas luxury goods, particularly among younger consumers in their 20s and 30s, despite South Korea’s unrelenting economic slump. According to Lotte Department Store, sales of overseas fashion items, largely comprising of high-end brands, jumped by more than 30 percent in 2016 compared to 2015 for [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid growing pet ownership in South Korea, Shinsegae’s Starfield Hanam is drawing attention over its all-out animal-friendly policy that allows shoppers to enjoy the mall in the company of their pets, making itself the first shopping complex in the country where pets can walk around so long as they are [...]
SEOUL, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Trademark infringement of South Korean cosmetics makers in China has been on the rise with Amorepacific taking to court a Chinese website that sells rip-off products of its brand Laneige. The South Korean cosmetics giant brought a trademark infringement case against an online shopping mall called ‘laneigeonline.com’ at a local [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – An attempt to lease out the remaining duty-free store licenses by tender at the new terminal at Incheon International Airport has failed again, as no duty-free operators made a bid, authorities and industry sources said Wednesday. The auction for licensing to run the apparel and accessories store at the [...]