SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Restaurant owners recognize the fact that plastic is both costly and bad for the environment, but the lack of an alternative leaves them with no choice but to use it, a survey showed Tuesday. The Korea Foodservice Industry Research Institute conducted a survey of 150 restaurant owners, 73.8 percent [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A single person generates more than 10 kilograms of plastic waste each year using food delivery services, a consumer watchdog said Thursday. The Korea Consumer Agency studied the plastic packaging used for 10 kinds of delivered food ordered from three different food delivery apps (a total of 30 food [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Food delivery app sales have spiked in proportion to the overall restaurant industry in the last two years with the spread of the contactless mode of consumption in the pandemic era, a report said Monday. The Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs reported that according to consumption data [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — With increasing food delivery commissions resulting from skyrocketing demand in the pandemic era, consumers are beginning to split up delivery fees. In January, most delivery companies raised delivery commissions by 500 to 1,000 won (US$0.42-0.83). The default delivery fee, which stood at around 3,300 won last year, jumped to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — With the growth of the food delivery industry and intensifying competition between firms to hire new employees, foreigners are increasingly being hired illegally. Searching for a delivery job on a recruitment website returns numerous employers willing to hire foreigners, most of whom are not eligible for these jobs. Foreigners [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — After expanding explosively during the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for food delivery apps is now declining steeply primarily due to the nation’s gradual shift to the “living with COVID-19″ policy. According to the big data analytics firm Mobile Index, the number of Android smartphone users for the nation’s leading [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Restaurants in Seoul’s Gangnam district will be engaged in a trial program to use multi-use boxes, instead of single-use ones, for food deliveries upon consumer request. Customers will be able to order food in a multi-use package at some 60 restaurants in the district using the delivery app Yogiyo. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — About 1,000 food delivery workers will walk off the job next week as part of a general strike called by one of the country’s two umbrella labor organizations, union officials said Friday. Delivery workers of South Korea’s leading food delivery services, Baedal Minjok, Coupang Eats and Yogiyo, designated Wednesday [...]
INCHEON, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — In response to the recent decision by an apartment complex to allow entry of delivery motorcycles only via underground parking lots, delivery personnel and businesses have decided to reject all deliveries to the complex. Rider Union, a labor union representing gig workers of food delivery apps, announced that it [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agriculture ministry said Friday it has set aside 20 billion won (US$17 million) to offer rebates to users of food delivery apps to promote social distancing and support local restaurants. Under the program set to start Wednesday, the government will provide a 10,000 won refund to those [...]