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Amid High Inflation, South Korea Sees Record Usage of Secondhand Marketplace Apps

Amid High Inflation, South Korea Sees Record Usage of Secondhand Marketplace Apps

SEOUL, Sept. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – As inflation continues to squeeze household budgets, South Koreans are turning to secondhand marketplace applications in record numbers, according to a recent study.  App and retail analysis service Wise App reported on September 10 that last month saw an all-time high in both installations and active users of major secondhand [...]

Virtusa iComms Marketplace to Help CSPs Quickly Assemble and Launch New Services

Virtusa iComms Marketplace to Help CSPs Quickly Assemble and Launch New Services

SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass. , Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ GS: VRTU), a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and solutions that help clients change and disrupt markets through innovation engineering, has unveiled Virtusa iComms, an intelligent marketplace for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to innovate faster and build solutions that leverage Virtusa Intellectual Property (IP). To be successful, [...]

Seoul’s Social Enterprises Continue to Prosper

Seoul’s Social Enterprises Continue to Prosper

SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government has been subject to various criticisms in its endeavors, like the monster sculpture in Yeouido’s Han River Park (the monster from the record-setting film “The Host”) or the latest ambiguous city slogan ‘I Seoul You’. But regardless of the other criticisms, the city’s socio-economic enterprises have [...]

Coupang Starts Mediation between Sellers and Consumers

Coupang Starts Mediation between Sellers and Consumers

SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Coupang (www.coupang.com), the online shopping site, will start a service next month called ‘Market Place’, which connects sellers with consumers. From a consumer’s point of view, nothing much will change. Up until now, Coupang provided a ‘retail service’ or ‘curation service’, in which they select and buy the items [...]