SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean food delivery applications saw their sales hit a fresh high in August as more people refrained from dining out and stayed home amid the stricter social distancing scheme, data showed Tuesday. The combined transactions made through the country’s four major food delivery applications came to 1.2 trillion [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that almost 6 in 10 Korean consumers are taking delivery of food on a regular basis through a food subscription service. According to an online survey conducted by the state-run Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corp. of 1,375 local consumers, 57.2 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of a prolonged slump in consumption due to the outbreak of the coronavirus, South Korea’s restaurant industry was hit with another blow by the long monsoon season accompanied by torrential rainfall. The food delivery business appears to be the industry’s only area of growth thank to [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Woowa Brothers Corp., South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, announced Monday that it will be testing the indoor autonomous driving food delivery robot Dilly Tower at the company’s headquarters in Seoul’s Songpa District until May 29. Dilly Tower is synced to a local elevator, allowing it to call, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Platform workers, the lifeblood of the country’s emerging gig platforms that offer delivery, ride-hailing and housekeeping services, are often exposed to dire working conditions such as low pay and long working hours, a study showed Wednesday. In contrast to the notion the lifestyle would give workers the freedom to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Food delivery people who rely on digital platforms such as apps have to pay about 10 percent of their earnings in commissions, according to a recent report. Jang Jin-hee, a researcher at the Federation of Korean Trade Unions, and Sohn Jung-soon, a researcher at the Korean Contingent Worker’s Center, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Recently, the food service industry has taken a new leap forward, with the convenience of online to offline delivery apps. However, critics are pointing out some of the side effects of fast-growing delivery service – employees who eat customers’ food and share tips for free meals, a serious matter. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Delivery services in South Korea are in the midst of diversification. In addition to delivery services for famous restaurants, there are now services that deliver pork belly grilled at ‘shared kitchens’. Even lunch boxes from convenience stores, shampoo, and other everyday goods can now be delivered. Delivery Hero Korea, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading food delivery app Baedal Minjok, or Baemin for short, said Sunday it began services for single-member households to meet their growing demands. If they order food through Baemin services, consumers now can order food worth less than 10,000 won (US$8.80) for one person, the company said [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Having started out as platforms to connect restaurants with consumers, smartphone delivery apps are now attempting to make a big leap by becoming providers of total solutions in the restaurant industry. In addition to their existing advertisement and delivery services, these platforms are expanding their horizons to include services like [...]