SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading food delivery app Baedal Minjok, or Baemin for short, said Sunday it began services for single-member households to meet their growing demands. If they order food through Baemin services, consumers now can order food worth less than 10,000 won (US$8.80) for one person, the company said [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Pizza Hut Korea said Wednesday it has launched a test operation of a robot to serve food to customers as the company moves to strengthen its competitiveness with cutting-edge technologies. The robot, dubbed Dilly Plate, was unveiled at one of its stores in western Seoul on Monday for a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — All eyes are on the nation’s most popular food delivery service app after its developers decided to add a new category to the interface that allows restaurants and customers to decide who will be paying for delivery. The app is known as WoowaBrothers in English and “Baedal Minjok” locally. [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Woowa Brothers Corp., a South Korean startup that operates the country’s most popular food dlivery app, “Baedal Minjok,” said Thursday that it is currently developing an autonomous delivery robot. The self-driving robot – named “Dilly” — is being co-built by a team of researchers from Korea University and is expected to be commercialized [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver’s new investment reports have revealed the IT giant is focusing on funding food-delivery apps and logistics startups. Speculation is growing in the wake of the recently released investment reports that Naver is expanding its presence in the field of logistics and physical distribution through venture capital projects with online [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The market leader of the food delivery service industry, Baedal Minjok, released a report citing operations data in an attempt to shutdown allegations that it was overcharging restaurants for advertising on its app. A spokesperson said the reason for doing so was because “there are recurring complaints about our [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Uber Technologies Inc. launched its food delivery service in South Korea on Thursday, joining the country’s heated delivery service app market. The mobile application UberEATS allows users to select food from registered restaurants and deliver the dishes by its delivery partners, its local unit Uber Korea said. “Food delivery [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Food delivery mobile applications are growing rapidly in South Korea, driven by burgeoning demand amid the spread of the lone-eating trend and a rising number of single households, industry sources said Tuesday. Baedal Minjok, a leading mobile delivery app run by local startup Woowa Brothers, raked in 84.8 billion [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report indicates that eight out of ten restaurants nationwide that offer delivery have partnerships with delivery applications. Baedal Minjok, Baedaltong, and Yogiyo issued a joint report that revealed statistics about restaurants offering delivery services. The researchers investigated 702 restaurants nationwide from November 2015 to February 2016, to [...]
SEOUL, Dec.17 (Korea Bizwire) – Graceful Brothers, the company managing the Baedal Minjok delivery application, announced that it will be launching a new advertising platform called ‘Our Shop’s Marketing Center’ to provide efficient advertising services to its members. ‘Our Shop’s Marketing Center’ suggests advertisements to suit a member’s store based on big data accumulated over [...]