SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Kmall24, an online store managed by the Korean International Trade Association (KITA) that supports direct overseas purchases online, has started aggressively targeting consumers abroad through Amazon Japan and eBay. According to the KITA, Kmall24 is the first organization that supports exports on Amazon Japan. The company registered 201 items [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – As more Korean consumers seek overseas direct purchases, consumer complaints are mounting in the sector. Most complaints were related to delivery issues and product defects. The Korea Consumer Agency announced on April 7 that the number of consumer counseling cases related to overseas direct purchases skyrocketed from 149 cases [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Among Korean preparatory entrepreneurs who plan to build a start-up overseas, eBay was selected as the most favorable online distribution channel. According to Teranova Korea, overseas start-up consultant agency which conducted a survey interviewing 910 preparatory entrepreneurs, 37 percent of the respondents picked eBay as the preferable channel for overseas [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — More than a half of Koreans who have purchased overseas goods directly used Amazon, world’s largest online shop. According to the Korea Consumer Agency which conducted a customer satisfaction survey among 1,000 Koreans with experience of overseas direct purchase in the past two years, 55.9 percent of them have purchased [...]
SEATTLE, July 28, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Amazon (AMZN) announced today the launch of the 3D Printed Products store (www.amazon.com/3dp), a marketplace that gives customers access to more than 200 unique print on-demand products, many that can be customized by material, size, styles and color variations, and personalized with text and image imprints. The new store is [...]
TIBURON, Calif. July 21, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Jon Peddie Research (JPR), the industry’s research and consulting firm for graphics and multimedia, announced its newest gaming market study, The Console Hardware Market, and is projecting that Android will drive video gaming on HDTVs for millions of customers by 2017. Ted Pollak, Senior Gaming Analyst at JRR notes [...]
SEATTLE, June 16, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Amazon today announced that Amazon Appstore selection has nearly tripled in the past year and developers continue to report strong monetization from the apps they offer in the store. The Amazon Appstore now has over 240,000 apps and games, is available in nearly 200 countries and on a multitude of [...]
SEATTLE, June 10, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Amazon today announced that Kindle for Android and Kindle for iOS are getting even better, with a free software update that builds a seamless listening experience right into the app. With Whispersync for Voice, recently called “Amazon’s killer new app for books” by the Wall Street Journal, the Kindle app [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) - As countdown to the much anticipated Brazil World Cup begins, Samsung Electronics is eyeing growing excitement in the run-up to one of the world’s largest sporting events which are to be held in Brazil this month. In an attempt to borrow successful marketing tactics from Amazon which is well [...]