SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s home shopping industry, grappling with poor sales performance due to a decline in television viewership, is incorporating high-end digital technology to attract customers. CJ OnStyle replaced all four of its studios with a digital studio in February, aiming to enhance the customer viewing experience through interactive video [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s home shopping industry is turning to digital technology to win back “Generation MZ” consumers, which includes both millennials and Generation Z. Lotte Homeshopping created a virtual model named Lucy, who achieved a 100 percent sales record as a show host since her debut. In a demonstration show [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Convenience store chain 7-Eleven on Tuesday opened a new store that will serve as a place to test future operational environments of the future using next-generation digital technology. The DT Lab Store that opened on the first floor of Lotte Data Communication Co.’s headquarters building in southern Seoul, is [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co. said Friday that it will nurture digital technology workforces to improve the management and production procedure of its shipyards. A program to be run by the software education center of Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) will train experts of ship-related [...]
SEOUL, Feb.23 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has selected ‘diginomics’ as a new strategy to boost city growth. With the city currently losing its growth engine, and with the population dwindling and expected to fall under 10 million, diginomics will be counted on to boost growth, create jobs and make the lives of [...]