SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nighttime travelers commuting for night shifts or other business are complaining about rising taxi fares in Seoul following the introduction of special nighttime fares. The additional charge for taxis at nighttime came into effect at 10 p.m. on Dec. 1, two hours earlier than before. From 11 p.m. to [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of consumers are complaining about voice call dropping or sound quality issues with some of Samsung Electronics Co.’s Galaxy S22 smartphones, as the tech giant recently found itself in hot water over the performance-throttling Game Optimization Service in the latest Galaxy S series. According to industry [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Owners of restaurants, cafes and other small businesses across the country vented outrage on Thursday after the government announced it will restore tough social distancing measures following a spike in coronavirus cases and deaths. Earlier in the day, the government said it will reduce the maximum private gathering size [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Reports to the police over people not wearing masks have surged seventeenfold after the Seoul city government mandated face masks in an anti-virus measure, data showed Monday. Reports on people without masks totaled 1,280 cases, or an average of 256 cases per day, between Monday and Friday last week, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — As many as eight in 10 South Koreans have experienced exposure to secondhand smoke from neighbors, but most of them refrained from making complaints, a poll showed Tuesday. The survey of 1,542 residents in Gyeonggi Province, the nation’s most populous province that surrounds Seoul, found that 1,197 respondents, or [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of consumer complaints about clothes dryers rose sharply in the first half of this year as sales of the home appliance have shot up in South Korea, a consumer watchdog said Sunday. A total of 536 complaints were reported to a state call center in the first [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — More complaints are being registered as an increasing number of South Korean drivers are opting for imported cars. The Korea Consumer Agency (KCA) said on Tuesday that a total of 1,410 complaints involving imported vehicles have been lodged over the past five years. A total of 2,945 complaints regarding [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — With an increasing number of South Korean consumers opting to make their online purchases thorough overseas websites, complaints related to direct foreign purchases are also on the rise. The Korea Consumer Agency’s Cross Border Transaction Consumer Portal saw a 305 percent rise in complaints last year with 1,463 cases, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of complaints filed by South Korean consumers who made purchases via foreign online shopping malls increased 46.4 percent in the first half of this year, as more people bought goods directly from overseas sellers attracted by cheaper prices and diversity, data showed Wednesday. The number of complaints [...]