SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s leading food delivery application said Tuesday it will abolish commissions imposed on every order handled through its platform in order to focus on expanding the number of users. The app dubbed “Baedal Minjok,” which means “Delivery Nation” in English, currently charges shop owners a commission of around [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Operators of three major food delivery apps, including Baedal Minjok, Yogiyo and Baedaltong, have joined together to promote safety awareness for delivery people, notorious for their disorderly manner in driving their motorcycles. According to the National Police Agency, it has signed an MoU with the Korea Occupational Safety and [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The ubiquity of mobile devices including smartphones has contributed to changes in the way Koreans make menu choices when they eat out, as more and more Koreans are searching for food information online. According to a recent survey on “eating out trends in 2014” jointly conducted by the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid controversy over the encroachment of sole proprietor small businesses by the rise of O2O (online to offline) business, it is expected that service fees of delivery apps, representing O2O business, will decrease over time. According to a report released by the KB Financial Group Research Institute, sales of [...]
“Beginning in December this year we will launch Line Pay in Japan. With this payment service, we will strengthen the shopping unit of Naver. Google considers Amazon as its biggest rival. It shows how much attention Internet companies pay to shopping services.” “The major money-making businesses on the Internet are advertising and shopping. In order [...]
SEOUL, Nov.28 (Korea Bizwire) – Woowa Brothers Corp., the company providing the “Baedal Minjok(Nation of Delivery)” service with its smartphone app of the same name, has won investment of US$36 million from a consortium led by Goldman Sachs. Lee Jae-hyun, Goldman Sachs’ executive responsible for Korean investment, said that his company wants to be a partner of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea is famous for fast and convenient food delivery. At any time, people can enjoy delivered food like fried chicken, Chinese food, Korean food and even instant ramen, to just name a few. In this already lucrative food delivery market, high-tech food delivery apps are pouring fuel for more [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) - Woowa Brothers, the service provider of Korea’s No. 1 mobile food delivery application, “Baedal Minjok (meaning ‘the People of Delivery’),” released another smartphone app for restaurant operators to take and process the delivery orders made from the “Baedal Minjok” app. The “Baedal Minjok Order-taking App” released on June 2 can be [...]
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[Related Article] War of Food Delivery Apps (Korea Bizwire, April 11) Striving for supremacy in the 10-trillion-won food delivery market, two start-ups came to gripes.The one leading the competition is Woowa Brothers, the service provider of Korea’s No. 1 mobile food delivery application, “Baedal Minjok (the People of Delivery).” The challenger is RGP Korea founded by [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Striving for supremacy in the 10-trillion-won food delivery market, two start-ups came to gripes. The one leading the competition is Woowa Brothers, the service provider of Korea’s No. 1 mobile food delivery application, “Baedal Minjok (the People of Delivery).” The challenger is RGP Korea founded by a German [...]