SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Global fashion brand Zara unveiled its augmented reality (AR) technology-based mobile application on Thursday to provide a better shopping experience for consumers amid a growing popularity of online malls. The app, Zara AR, shows models wearing selected clothing items when users hold their mobile phones towards a censor inside [...]
BUSAN, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan municipal government said Thursday it will build a fashion business center in the city’s central region to help foster the textile and fashion industry in South Korea’s second-biggest city. The six-story Busan Fashion Business Center will be built on 1,613 square meters of land in Beomil-dong with [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail giant Lotte said Wednesday it will unify the management of its scattered fashion businesses under the group’s apparel affiliate to improve its competitiveness in the local market. Lotte Shopping Co., the operator of the conglomerate’s department store chain, has decided to transfer its global fashion business [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — AmorePacific Group, a major cosmetics maker here, said it entered the Australian market Wednesday with one of its most popular brands, as the company accelerates its overseas push in the face of a sharp decline in the number of Chinese tourists. Products of AmorePacific’s mid-end Laneige are now available [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — People living in cities are more likely to develop skin problems such as rashes, spots and eczema due to an increased number of skin microorganisms, a new study has revealed. The joint study conducted by Amorepacific and the College of Biotechnology and Natural Resources at Chung-Ang University has found a [...]
SEOUL, March 5 (Korea Bizwire) — “K-beauty” products are gaining a foothold in new markets outside of China and Southeast Asia. While shipments to China comprises around 40 percent of all South Korean cosmetics exports, the geopolitical standoff over U.S. missile defense installations last year has spurred on companies to establish a presence in Africa, [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Demand for the glasses worn by skip Kim Eun-jung and Kim Seon-young of the South Korean women’s curling team has soared as the popularity of the so-called “Garlic Girls” is reaching ever greater heights thanks to their unexpected success at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics. Both women wear glasses produced [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The word “su-du-mae” — an acronym of studio, dress and makeup — is the “customary way” that couples getting ready to tie the knot prepare for their big day in South Korea, which is part of the colossus domestic wedding industry, often criticized for extravagant and pretentious ceremonies. An [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Nature Republic Co., a South Korean cosmetics firm, said Thursday that it has opened its first outlet in Indonesia, as it attempts to expand its presence in the Southeast Asian market. The store, at a shopping mall in Jakarta, posted about 100 million won (US$94,000) in sales on its [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s beauty and fashion brands are leading a new round of hallyu, or the Korean Wave, in Japan, where the market for the products is growing, a local trade body said Thursday. Japan imported 2.68 billion yen (US$24.47 million) worth of cosmetics from South Korea in the January-September [...]