SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ O Shopping, a home shopping affiliate of CJ ENM, announced on Monday that Ssangyong Motor Co.’s new automobile, the 2021 Tivoli Air, will be unveiled during a live broadcast at 7:45 pm on Oct. 7. It is the first time for a new car presentation to be made [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ O Shopping is expanding its variety show style programs in an effort to attract younger viewers. The major South Korean TV shopping channel announced on Thursday a number of new ‘media commerce’ programs scheduled to air at midnight during the week. The term ‘media commerce’ refers to the collaboration [...]
SEOUL, March 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Companies in the home shopping industry are successfully catching the eye of consumers via exclusive distribution deals and self-produced brands. GS Shop disclosed on March 11 that total orders received for its clothing wear brand SJ Wani – co-created with designer Son Jung Wan in 2012 – had surpassed [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Home shopping TV channels charged the biggest commissions on sales this year compared with department stores, online malls and discount outlets, South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said Wednesday. Home shopping channels received an average 28.4 percent commission, the Fair Trade Commission said, citing its survey of 19 home shopping channels, department stores, online malls and large discount outlets. The comparable figures were 22 percent for department stores, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of women’s products via home shopping soared post-Chuseok (October 10 through 15) according to industry insiders. In particular, high-end articles of clothing, luxury brand items and jewelry proved to be popular. CJ O Shopping revealed that its broadcast on October 10 of the ‘Vera Wang Air Cashmere 100% [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ O Shopping Co., a home shopping unit of CJ Group, said Thursday it will launch a new channel in Malaysia in a joint venture with Media Prima TV Networks, a major Malaysian media group. CJ O Shopping plans to start airing the new shopping channel in the first [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — CJ Korea Express, CJ Group’s logistics arm, has failed in its takeover bid for APL Logistics, allegedly due to group chairman Lee Jae-Hyun’s absence, which has been ongoing for two years now. Lee Jae-Hyun is currently hospitalized, with the Seoul High Court’s verdict on him still effective. He was sentenced to [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a study conducted by CJ O Shopping, a Korean home shopping company, Korean products related to health and beauty are likely to sell like hot cakes in seven overseas countries. An increasing number of Chinese consumers are reportedly interested in kitchen appliances including slow juicers such as [...]
SEOUL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – CJ O Shopping plans to spur its home shopping business in India through partnership with a global private equity fund of US$40 billion. Star CJ, CJ’s home shopping subsidiary in India in cooperation with STAR TV, signed a new partnership deal with U.S.-based private equity fund Providence Equity Partners [...]