SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the expansion of the delivery service market resulting from the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, competition is heating up among South Korean delivery apps to speed up their delivery services. To this end, major delivery apps are doubling efforts to recruit enough delivery drivers. In August, the nation’s [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A newly developed program gives off a verbal warning to motorcycle delivery people when passing through dangerous traffic zones. The Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency announced Monday that a new open application programming interface (API) has been developed to prevent motorcycle drivers from getting into traffic accidents. The [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Monday it will offer a temporary 20 percent discount on food and grocery orders placed on seven designated apps. The offer will run from Wednesday through Tuesday and give customers a maximum discount of 50,000 won (US$45) on their purchases made with “Seoul Love [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has showed that most of South Korea’s delivery app-affiliated restaurants are feeling a huge burden from the costs that they have to pay to delivery app operators. The Seoul Metropolitan Government, the Incheon Metropolitan Government and the Gyeonggi Provincial Government jointly carried out a survey of [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Recently, there has been a need to come up with measures to prevent the monopolization of delivery platforms. In the midst of this period of social awareness, 6 out of 10 Koreans are in favor of the creation of a public delivery app led by local governments, a poll [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — A US$4 billion deal by Germany’s Delivery Hero to acquire South Korea’s largest food delivery app operator, Woowa Brothers, has stirred up controversy here, as some politicians and small merchants have raised concerns about the monopoly status the merged entity will have if the deal is approved. For years, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery Hero, a Germany-based online delivery service provider, said Thursday that it has developed artificial intelligence (AI) technology that screens out fake reviews. The technology developed by Delivery Hero Korea, which runs the delivery apps Yogiyo and Baedaltong, is a deep learning-based automatic classification AI process model that filters [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A new trend is emerging where consumers order coffee from delivery apps or apply for monthly subscriptions to enjoy coffee. The new trend is replacing the trend of making and drinking coffee at home. Innocean Worldwide Inc., a major local advertising agency, released a data analysis report that analyzed [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — As delivery apps such as Baedal Minjok and Yogiyo are enjoying their heyday, the work pattern of delivery people and their legal status is also changing. However, the possibility of getting injured and the risk while delivering goods are not getting much attention. Some point out that there is [...]