SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail giant Shinsegae Inc. said Friday it has signed an initial agreement with a foreign investment firm and a private equity firm to strengthen its e-commerce business amid a rapid expansion of the country’s online market. Shinsegae said it will hive off the online business divisions of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The upper middle-aged crowd in their 50s and 60s are figuring out this online shopping thing, and in the process, are recording massive boosts in spending on the internet. According to the results of an analysis of shopping patterns exhibited by clientele aged 50 and above, e-commerce website Wemakeprice [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Planet Co., the operator of local e-commerce platform 11st, said Tuesday its Turkish unit posted 42 billion won (US$37.5 million) in transactions during an online shopping event held last week, marking the highest daily ever record. The new peak was set during a shopping promotion held by n11, [...]
Will Ross, CEO of Lazada Crossborder, speaks during a press conference in Seoul on Nov. 7, 2017. (image: Lazada Group) SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Lazada Group, which runs the largest online shopping platform in Southeast Asia, said Tuesday it is looking for South Korean companies who will sell their products in the growing [...]
AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Payvision, global acquirer and data-driven omnichannel solutions provider, has published the findings of its fifth annual cross-border ecommerce research report, in collaboration with Juniper Research. The paper includes the results of a global survey of various industry players regarding the game-changers, the biggest challenges, the best practices [...]
HONG KONG, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Home Inc., a social e-commerce platform for the home furnishing industry, recently announced the completion of a $5 million Series A+ round of financing led by Sky9 Capital with participation from existing investor Capital Today. Home Inc. is a leading social e-commerce platform for furniture and home furnishings [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co.’s mobile payment service has hit 10 trillion won (US$8.76 billion) in accumulated transaction volume in South Korea, the company said Sunday. Samsung Pay was launched at home in August 2015 and had 2 trillion won of transactions in its first year. It uses magnetic secure transmission [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of smartphones through online platforms in South Korea remain sluggish compared with other countries, data showed Wednesday, due mainly to strong dominance of mobile carriers in the mobile phone market. According to the data compiled by Strategy Analytics, the sales of smartphones through online platforms in the country [...]
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Jul. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Acapture, a global, data-driven omnichannel PSP, has revealed the findings of a new white paper; Future Trends in Consumer Behavior. The report explores the preferences of the youngest and largest set of digital native consumers – millennials and generation Z, and it confirms that retail MUST become [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea ranked No. 1 in terms of e-commence for grocery shopping, far outpacing other major developed countries, an industry report showed Tuesday. According to the report by industry tracker, Kantar Worldpanel, the percentage of fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) shopping via online and mobile channels out of all purchases [...]