SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — After being hit hard by the outbreak of the coronavirus, South Korea’s fashion and beauty companies are finding their feet again on the back of face masks and hand sanitizers. Home-grown innerwear maker SBW Inc. is placing bigger emphasis on the production of face masks rather than its main [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Sales of hand sanitizers and facial masks, as well as health products, spiked last month amid influenza season, industry data showed Tuesday. According to the data by discount store chain Lotte Mart, sales of facial masks jumped 15.6 percent in the Dec. 1-30 period compared to a year earlier. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The MERS outbreak in Korea is causing sales of personal hygiene products to soar, even among non-domestic internet retailers. According to Seven Eleven, sales of Vaseline pots increased 121 percent between May 28 to June 3 compared to the same period in 2014. A rumor that applying Vaseline inside [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — As Korea is being hit by a multitude of emergency particle pollution warnings, and following earlier outbreaks of foot and mouth disease around the country, antibacterial products such as hand sanitizers and toy sterilizers are selling well among Korean customers. According to an announcement from GMarket on March 31, sales [...]