SEOUL, Nov.11 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao has announced that it has opened a mobile circulation platform for Jeju tangerines called ‘Kakao Farmer Jeju’. ‘Kakao Farmer Jeju’ was established with the intention to select the best produce and deliver it to consumers when it is in its most delicious state. Since this is a trial [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. and LG Electronics Inc., South Korea’s top two tech firms, said Wednesday that they have garnered international awards for some of their latest home appliances, mobile devices and memory chips. Samsung won the Best of Innovation award for a total of 38 products, including the most [...]
SEOUL, Nov.9 (Korea Bizwire) – As convenient store meal boxes are high in demand, employees and franchise owners of Seven Eleven got together in competition to develop a new meal box menu. A total of 54 teams consisting of Seven Eleven franchise owners, employees and their families competed last month, and 10 teams moved on [...]
SEOUL, Nov.9 (Korea Bizwire) – With the American ‘Black Friday’ shopping frenzy only three weeks away, the credit card industry has ramped up marketing efforts, targeting those who make direct overseas purchases. As the number of people who make overseas purchases is increasing rapidly, credit card companies have started their promotions earlier than in previous [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – With share prices in the Korean pharmaceutical industry hitting all-time highs, the seven grandchildren of Lim Sung-gi, CEO of Hanmi Pharmaceutical Co., have each became stock billionaires with holdings of approximately 100 billion won each. According to Chebul.com, Lim’s twelve-year-old grandson received shares of affiliated companies including Hanmi Science, [...]
SEOUL, Nov.6 (Korea Bizwire) – As the sci-fi blockbuster movie ‘The Martian’ became a box office hit, items related to space, science and NASA are also in high demand. According to the online shopping mall 11st, sales of telescopes have increased 32 percent during the three weeks since ‘The Martian’ opened (October 8 to October [...]
SEOUL, Nov.6 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Department Store is expanding its Smart Pick service, which allows customers to pick up products purchased earlier through online shopping sites such as Lotte.com or L-Lotte. The order cut-off for picking up a purchased item on the same day used to be 10 a.m., but Lotte Department Store announced [...]
SEOUL, Nov.6 (Korea Bizwire) – A long wait that saw eager customers camp out in front H&M stores came to a frenzied end with yelling, scuffling and shopping pandemonium. On the day that new products created as part of collaboration between Balmain and the Swedish SPA brand H&M were released, hundreds of people waited in [...]
SUWON, Nov.6 (Korea Bizwire) – The ‘local food’ movement in Korea is growing in popularity as the interest in organic produce continues to rise. Local food refers to the practice of connecting food producers and consumers from the same region to minimize transportation distances and develop stronger food networks. With produce being grown in the [...]
SEOUL, Nov.5 (Korea Bizwire) – Lotte Duty Free has announced a plan to make its World Tower store into a landmark of North East Asia. Lotte will invest over one trillion won to make the location an international tourist spot that will exceed the popularity of its headquarters in Sogong-dong. Lotte Duty Free revealed at [...]