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Baemin Partners with Tving to Launch Bundle Service, Countering Coupang Eats’ OTT Strategy

Baemin Partners with Tving to Launch Bundle Service, Countering Coupang Eats’ OTT Strategy

SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading food delivery app Baemin is teaming up with local streaming platform Tving to offer a bundled subscription service, in a move seen as a strategic response to growing competition from Coupang Eats, which operates its own streaming platform, Coupang Play. Woowa Brothers, the operator of Baemin, [...]

Probe Suggests Possible Leak of SK Telecom Users’ Private Info from Cyberattack

Probe Suggests Possible Leak of SK Telecom Users’ Private Info from Cyberattack

SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Servers at SK Telecom Co. containing personal information and universal subscriber identity module (USIM) data of all subscribers have been compromised in a cyberattack, raising concerns that critical USIM data used in financial transactions may have been leaked, a joint government-private investigation team said Monday. According to the team’s [...]

Jeju’s Public Delivery App ‘Meokkaebi’ Sees Surge in Use Amid Soaring Food Delivery Costs

Jeju’s Public Delivery App ‘Meokkaebi’ Sees Surge in Use Amid Soaring Food Delivery Costs

JEJU, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As food delivery fees and dining costs continue to climb, consumers in South Korea’s Jeju Province are turning in growing numbers to Meokkaebi, a government-backed public delivery app offering lower prices and incentives. According to provincial officials on Wednesday, monthly orders on Meokkaebi surged to 62,546 in April 2025, up 431% [...]

Prosecutors Use Food Delivery App Data in High-Profile Investigation of Former President Yoon

Prosecutors Use Food Delivery App Data in High-Profile Investigation of Former President Yoon

SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) —  South Korean prosecutors have sparked controversy after it was revealed they sought food delivery app records as part of a recent search of former President Yoon Suk-yeol’s private residence, an investigative move that Yoon’s camp condemned as a political ploy to humiliate him and his wife. The detail, disclosed by [...]

Online Shopping Up 2.6 Pct in March on Demand for Food Services

Online Shopping Up 2.6 Pct in March on Demand for Food Services

SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping sales in South Korea gained 2.6 percent from a year earlier in March driven by rising demand for food products and relevant services, data showed Thursday. The value of online shopping transactions stood at 22.42 trillion won (US$15.72 billion) in March, up 576.8 billion won from a [...]

Gov’t Orders SK Telecom to Halt New Subscriptions Amid USIM Shortage Following Cyberattack

Gov’t Orders SK Telecom to Halt New Subscriptions Amid USIM Shortage Following Cyberattack

SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The government on Thursday issued an administrative guidance order instructing SK Telecom Co. to suspend new subscriber sign-ups until it resolves a shortage of universal subscriber identity module (USIM) cards related to a recent company network data breach. The Ministry of Science and ICT said the measure aims to [...]

Small Business Group Warns of ‘Digital Colonization’ as Google Seeks High-Precision Map Data

Small Business Group Warns of ‘Digital Colonization’ as Google Seeks High-Precision Map Data

SEOUL, May 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A major South Korean small business advocacy group is urging the government to reject Google’s repeated requests to export high-precision map data, warning that such a move would threaten national digital sovereignty and jeopardize local jobs in emerging industries. In a strongly worded statement released Tuesday, the Korea Federation [...]

SK Telecom Preparing for Possible Data Leak of All 25 Million Customers: CEO

SK Telecom Preparing for Possible Data Leak of All 25 Million Customers: CEO

SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Ryu Young-sang, chief executive officer (CEO) of SK Telecom Co., said Wednesday the company is preparing for the worst-case scenario that a recent cyberattack may have leaked the universal subscriber identity module (USIM) data of all 25 million subscribers. “In the worst-case scenario, we are bracing for it,” Ryu [...]

SK Telecom Hacking Incident Spurs Surge in Mobile Transfers, Boosting Banks’ Budget Phone Services

SK Telecom Hacking Incident Spurs Surge in Mobile Transfers, Boosting Banks’ Budget Phone Services

SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent hacking incident at SK Telecom has triggered a spike in demand for SIM card replacements and mobile number transfers, with some South Korean banks poised to benefit from the unexpected fallout by expanding their budget mobile phone services. According to banking industry officials on Tuesday, KB Kookmin [...]

SK Telecom Hack Triggers Mass SIM Swap, Raising Carbon Emissions Concerns

SK Telecom Hack Triggers Mass SIM Swap, Raising Carbon Emissions Concerns

SEOUL, April 29, (Korea Bizwire) — The fallout from a major hacking incident at SK Telecom is set to trigger a significant environmental cost, with greenhouse gas emissions from mass SIM card replacements projected to reach thousands of tons, according to industry estimates released Monday. Approximately 23 million SK Telecom subscribers and an additional 1.87 [...]