SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — As so-called ‘untact’ or contactless consumption is on the increase amid the coronavirus pandemic, the lines that once stood between the retail and delivery sectors are disappearing as market players are jumping into each other’s territories. Delivery Hero Stores Korea, a subsidiary of Germany-based online delivery service provider Delivery [...]
BONN, GERMANY, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – With first emergency use authorizations for COVID-19 vaccines expected to be effective in the last quarter of 2020, logistics providers are challenged to rapidly establish medical supply chains to deliver more than ten billion doses worldwide. DHL, working with McKinsey & Company as analytics partner, has published a white [...]
SEOUL, June 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Coffee delivery services are not an unfamiliar concept in South Korea. Serving persons at tea houses, or “dabang” in Korean, used to deliver cups of coffee filled with sugar and cream on foot. Big-name coffee chains such as Starbucks and small independent cafes replaced such tea houses by offering [...]
SEJONG, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s finance ministry said Tuesday it will ease regulations on alcoholic drinks, in a bid for local producers to increase their competitiveness against foreign firms. Under the deregulatory move, which is subject to approval from the National Assembly, local firms will be allowed to produce alcoholic drinks under [...]
TONGYEONG, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The city of Tongyeong in South Gyeongsang Province will push for a project to set up local area drone delivery services. The project is aimed at building delivery infrastructure by using drones in logistics blind spots such as mountainous areas or islands where it is difficult to receive mail [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The e-commerce industry, which has long emphasized “fast delivery,” is now expanding its services, with competition now turning to offering “easy returns”. South Korea’s major shopping portal 11st said Monday that it has introduced a service to offset return costs caused by customers exchanging products, in which an insurance [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The coronavirus outbreak has resulted in worry among South Koreans purchasing goods directly from China over the risk of infection through delivered goods. The Korea Customs Service reported that incoming products from China accounted for as much as 33 percent of the foreign direct purchase market, ranking second after [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — With the continued growth of the delivery market, which is a hot topic in the food and restaurant industry, the era of consumers receiving bread delivered from bakeries near their homes to the front door has begun in earnest. Paris Baguette, the flagship bakery brand of South Korea’s SPC [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are increasingly preferring home meal deliveries. Innocean Worldwide Inc., a local advertisement agency, released a report on Sunday that compiled some 1.7 million data records produced on online forums and social media between August 2018 and July 2019. The report showed that South Koreans are increasingly preferring [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts are concerned that shared kitchen services will only maximize profits for delivery businesses, while undermining the overall competitiveness of the food service industry. According to a study commissioned by the Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation and conducted by the Korea Food Service Industry Management Institute (KFIM), the [...]