SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — A Seoul court has ordered a major online shopping mall to compensate more than 2,400 customers 100,000 won (US$88) each for a data leak in 2016, legal sources said Sunday. The Seoul Central District Court handed a partial victory to the customers of Interpark Corp., who had demanded 300,000 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s online malls have raked in sales during massive discount campaigns held well in advance of Black Friday in the United States, according to industry insiders Sunday. Major online malls and market places presented door-busting deals in early November to entice consumers even before department stores and discount [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Global furniture giant Ikea’s Korean unit said Wednesday it will launch an e-commerce channel this week, more than three and a half years after it entered Asia’s fourth-largest economy. The company said it has established a distribution center for the online mall set to open on Saturday that can [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – While in college in the early 2000s, Lee Eun-sun used to go to the Dongdaemun market to buy casual clothes, hopping from one shopping complex to another. Walking through the narrow aisles lined up with cramped stores without partitions, she learned how to bargain with shop owners over prices, [...]
SEOUL, May 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid growing purchasing influence of Chinese tourists in the Korean market, the transaction systems of online shopping malls are becoming more and more Chinese-friendly. Lotte.com, Korea’s online shopping mall, announced on May 20 that it has developed a payment system for Chinese customers in cooperation with “Alipay,” a Chinese [...]
Seoul, Korea, August 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Students and young adults in every country have one or two experiences of part-time jobs during their summer vacations. There are some nice, comfortable, and worthwhile jobs but not all of us are that lucky. Here are two interesting survey results from two giants of Korean online job search portals, showing [...]