SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Consumers will be given 300 won (US$0.24) in cashable points for every beverage they buy in a reusable cup at cafes, the environment ministry said Sunday, in a new waste-reduction program. Under the program, the 300-won “carbon neutrality” points will be paid when consumers buy a beverage either in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Self-employed café owners are struggling to deal with increases in the price of raw materials such as milk and coffee beans. The number of coffee shops that were closed in the first half of this year in Seoul stood at 1,239, according to data from the Seoul Metropolitan Government. [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Coffee consumers were most satisfied with Starbucks Korea among all cafe franchises in the country, a poll showed Monday. The Korea Consumer Agency conducted a survey of 1,400 consumers over 20 years of age who had visited a coffee shop in the previous three months, with Starbucks receiving the [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – The amount of prepaid charges for use at coffee shops has exceeded 270 billion won (US$218 million), a ruling party lawmaker said Monday, citing data from the Fair Trade Commission. The amount of prepaid charges currently remaining at 10 coffee and dessert cafe franchises stood at 271.7 billion won [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The use of disposable items, such as single-use plastic cups and cutlery, is prohibited inside cafes and restaurants under a new environmental regulation that went into force Friday. It marks a reinstatement of the environmental ministry’s anti-disposable law that first went into effect in 2018. Its enforcement was temporarily [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of SMEs and Startups said Wednesday that Starbucks Korea had signed an agreement with the National Commission for Corporate Partnership and the National Cafe Owners Association. Under this agreement, Starbucks Korea will develop drinks using local agricultural produce before sharing these recipes as well as providing raw [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Cafe franchises are scrambling to introduce pet-related services for so-called ‘pet-fams’, or family customers with pets. Starbucks Coffee Korea’s Namyangju outlet in Gyeonggi Province, which opened last Friday, has a 330-square-meter outdoor pet park that’s open to customers and their pets. It is the first time for a Starbucks [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The question about the limit of ‘acceptable behavior’ at coffee shops is sparking a massive public debate. The controversy broke out after a man and a woman at a cafe in the southeastern port city of Busan took up an entire table for six people to engage in a [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government will launch a tumbler rental program this week in collaboration with a group of nearby coffee shops as part of a joint experimental project to drive out disposable cups from cafes, officials said Thursday. Under the “multiuse cup experimental project,” set to kick off Saturday, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Owners of restaurants and cafes are fiercely protesting against the government’s decision on Friday to reduce their nighttime hours of operation by one to counter spreading COVID-19 infections at multi-use facilities. While extending the toughest Level 4 restrictions for another two weeks until Sept. 5 in the capital area [...]