SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — With South Koreans cheering for Jincheon, which has accepted ‘persons of special merit’ from Afghanistan, the county’s online shopping mall that sells local produce has been shut down due to server overload. On the county’s Jincheon Mall website, a notice was posted on Sunday saying that all item sales [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading portal operator Naver Corp., said Thursday that its financial arm Naver Financial Corp. will now transfer the full value of transactions conducted via its portal to Smartstore sellers the day after delivery, as part of the company’s ‘Quick Transaction’ policy. Smart Store is an online shopping [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korea’s largest ad agency is making forays into the e-commerce market. Cheil Worldwide Inc., an advertisement unit of Samsung Group, announced on Monday that it had opened a new-concept online shopping mall ‘GETTT’ that is an experience-based e-commerce platform. GETTT is an abbreviation of the words ‘Get [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Group, the operator of South Korea’s biggest discount store chain Emart, said Monday that it will integrate its online shopping mall operations into SSG.COM from next month to boost sales. The retail conglomerate will launch SSG.COM, an integrated company of two online shopping stores — the Shinsegae mall [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A new online shopping mall has been opened to connect ‘good consumers’ and ‘good suppliers’ and make social contributions. The Korea National Council on Social Welfare announced on Thursday that it will begin operation of a new Value Creator Platform (VCP) that combines merchandise with social projects. VCP is [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Department Store, one of the major department stores in South Korea, announced on July 28 that it will launch a virtual reality (VR) online store on its upscale online shopping mall – the Hyundai.com (www.thehyundai.com). The Hyundai’s new online VR store provides customers with the feeling of physically being [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Product reviews on online shopping sites and Q&A comments on Naver can now be deleted as they fall under ‘right to be forgotten’ category. The guidelines for ‘right to be forgotten’ limitations distributed to Internet business entities have been updated, said an official from the Korea Communications Commission on Monday, [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — DELL Korea is making Korean customers nervous and angry by abruptly canceling orders for its monitors, which were selling for 136,400 won (US$ 124) at its online shopping mall as part of its big promotion, saying that the promotion page for the discount was published accidently via an update [...]