SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A new color crayon product “Toru Glass Color” by Dong-A Pen Inc. is being sold in all locations of E-Mart stores nationwide from early October. The Toru Glass Color has been so popular among children that parents had to go to so many office supply stores to buy a 12-color [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The wet wipe market in Korea has grown to 270 billion won (US$254 million), but controversies whether wet tissues are safe for human health are still raging on. Recently a news report caused stir among consumers as it exposed most wet wipe products sold in Korea contain “cetrimonium bromide,” an antiseptic [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Consumer Agency said on September 28 that it conducted a product test on eight baby pillow brands claiming “100-percent natural latex” or “natural latex” in their advertising and found four of them contained only 16 to 34 percent. Natural latex rubber is much more expensive than synthetic latex as [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Kyobo Books announced on September 23 that it revamped its bestseller ranking system to eradicate the habit of stockpiling books to be listed as bestsellers in the publishing industry. The Korea’s biggest bookstore decided to include the cumulative sales volume to overcome shortcomings of the current ranking system, which is [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s major retailer E-Mart has begun operations of “Bojeong Logistics Center” in Bojeong-dong in the city of Yongin, south of Seoul. This is the first all-automatic order fulfillment center in Asia. With this new facility, customers of E-Mart online shopping mall will be able to receive packages faster and more precisely. [...]
AMERSFOORT, Netherlands, Sept. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Descartes Systems Group (Nasdaq:DSGX) (TSX:DSG), the global leader in uniting logistics-intensive businesses in commerce, announced that Detailresult Group, a leading retail conglomerate in the Netherlands, has outsourced its B2B messaging and archiving operations to Descartes to increase productivity and reduce costs. Detailresult relies on an ecosystem of over one [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a study conducted by CJ O Shopping, a Korean home shopping company, Korean products related to health and beauty are likely to sell like hot cakes in seven overseas countries. An increasing number of Chinese consumers are reportedly interested in kitchen appliances including slow juicers such as [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korea National Tourism Organization announced on September 14 that it expected more than 160,000 Chinese travelers would visit Korea during the Chinese National Day from October 1 through 7, which is 35 percent up from 118,000 visitors last year. The number of Chinese tourists to Korea from January [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Mannequins no longer stand still in a department store. They work in the office, check their smartphone and put on make-up in front of a mirror. The Galleria Department Store announced on September 4 that it would replace existing mannequins with new ones in accordance with its Fall/Winter renewal. The [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Able C&C, which owns cosmetic brands Missha and A’pieu, is riding high thanks to Peng Liyuan, the first lady in China. When Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party in China, and she visited Korea, she bought the “BB Cream,” a kind of blemish balm invented in [...]