SEJONG, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Early morning delivery service, while contributing to growth in annual sales of as much as 16 percent last year among South Korean online shopping malls, is also leading way to new social problems. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy announced on Wednesday that major retailers saw sales increased by an [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Small business owners spend an average of 840,000 won (US$716) a month on online delivery service applications. Of the money spent, half of it is spent on advertising via the application. Business owners want half of what they are spending on the application, 200,000 won, for advertisements. This data [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Homepick, a joint venture by local energy giants SK Energy and GS Caltex to provide delivery service based on their network of gas stations, is defined by the following tagline: “We deliver within an hour if you’re home.” In the past, delivery service customers had to either wait at [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., best known for its ubiquitous smartphone messaging app, is expanding its recent venture into the food delivery service. Having initiated delivery service for select franchise stores as a third-party in March of last year, Kakao has announced that it is expanding its delivery service to include all [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Major department stores have put a large number of delivery workers on standby for the Lunar New Year holiday later this month, expecting better business after adjustments to an anti-corruption law, retail industry sources said Thursday. The Lunar New Year falls on Feb. 16 this year, and department stores, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Uber Technologies Inc. launched its food delivery service in South Korea on Thursday, joining the country’s heated delivery service app market. The mobile application UberEATS allows users to select food from registered restaurants and deliver the dishes by its delivery partners, its local unit Uber Korea said. “Food delivery [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Social networking services that have remained as a means of communication are creating whole new business categories. The best-known example is Uber Taxi that can connect those who need to hire a taxi and cars idling in the parking lot. There is an innovative business model in Korea that takes advantage [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – According to Yonhap News Agency on August 31, “Jogook,” a monthly magazine published by the General Association of North Korean Residents in Japan carried an article reporting that the state-run First Department Store in Pyongyang has made an effort to improve its services. The article explained that salespeople in the [...]