SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers are increasingly joining hands with Chinese mobile payment platforms to attract more Chinese visitors as they strive to recover from the fallout from a diplomatic row between Seoul and Beijing, industry sources said Thursday. Shinsegae DF Inc. said it has adopted UnionPay’s QR code payment system [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile payment system, Samsung Pay, boasted 8.86 million users in July in South Korea, making it the most popular Android-based financial app, data showed Tuesday. According to the data compiled by industry tracker WiseApp, Samsung Pay saw its number of users move up 53 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – JUSTOUCH, a new payment system based on near-field communication (NFC), is set to initiate services on August 1 with seven out of eight Korean credit companies offering the new system as a payment option for consumers. According to industry insiders, consumers will be able to make payments with JUSTOUCH [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean central bank said Tuesday that it will adopt a new mobile cash card settlement service starting next year in a bid to expand simplified mobile payments in the country. A council on financial information by the Bank of Korea (BOK) and local banks decided to develop [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Credit card companies are on high alert after the launch of a new payment system by the city of Seoul that allows small business owners and their customers to make monetary transactions without any fees. Yesterday, the Seoul Metropolitan Government announced the launch of “Seoul Pay,” a zero transaction [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Software freely available to the public has become a new target for hackers. SK Infosec, an information security company, held a press conference yesterday in central Seoul to disclose that 43 percent of the software vulnerabilities found in the first half of the year involved open-source software. The company [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (MSIP) revealed yesterday its plans to secure a competitive edge in blockchain technology on a global scale by pushing forth six projects in the sector. The six projects to utilize blockchain technology are in the fields of livestock products, customs, real [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A new payment system will be implemented aimed at addressing one of the top difficulties small businesses face, payment processing charges. Hong Jong-hak, the minister of SMEs and Startups, stated at a gathering relating to the issue today that an innovative payment system is needed to relieve small businesses [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Similar to the “High Pass” system employed on highways, allowing cars to automatically pay tolls, a Starbucks version is in the works. Starbucks Korea revealed today that it was implementing its “My DT Pass” system for the first time in the world via Korea’s drive-through coffee shops. “My DT [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As a woman in her 40s enters a clothing store with her daughter, a “smart” CCTV camera recognizes her as a regular customer, delivering her personal information to a welcome robot, which then greets both the female customer and her daughter. As the customer moves around the shop, custom-fit [...]