SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — As more people are spending long hours indoors following the coronavirus outbreak, demand for massage chairs, massage guns, and acupressure massagers for home use is on the rise. E-Mart Inc., South Korea largest discount store chain, reported a 44 percent jump in massage chair sales for the first half [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Demand for luxury goods continue to rise despite price hikes and the COVID-19 pandemic. Chanel, a high-end fashion house, has already raised prices in South Korea twice this year. The French luxury brand raised the price of the Classic Flap Bag Medium from 8.64 million won (US$7,600) to 9.71 [...]
SEOUL, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Demand for high-end home appliances is rising with Koreans continue to opt to stay indoors away from the coronavirus. South Korean online shopping site Auction sold 630 percent more four-door refrigerators and 165 percent more 86-inch televisions between May 1 and 16 compared to the same period last year. [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of the rapid growth of the e-commerce market resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for logistics warehouses that are needed for storing, loading, unloading and sorting cargo is growing at a healthy pace. The online real estate information provider Real Estate 114 analyzed the cases [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Local retail sales of processed rice products shot up nearly 11 percent in 2019 from a year earlier due to the growing demand from single-member households while more people opt for convenient meals, data showed Thursday. Retail sales of processed rice products, including ready-to-eat steamed rice, porridge, and noodles, [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The status of developers continues to grow in South Korea’s information technology (IT) industry. Some IT firms are spinning off units as independent corporate entities, while others are moving offices to secure more developers. Along with the spread of non-face-to-face interaction (‘untact’) culture due to the outbreak of the [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Electric car manufacturers have been unable to supply promised cars to the public on time. According to the provincial government of Jeju, 1,015 new electric cars were registered on the island during a period of six months between February and July, which is just 25.3 percent of the initial [...]