SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – As the fourth industrial revolution reshapes the landscape of online shopping of our time, advanced technology such as chatbots that assist shoppers are proving popular among consumers despite fears jobs will be taken away by robots and automation. Inside reports from the distribution industry yesterday revealed companies that have [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Sales of South Korea’s online shopping malls rose dramatically in recent months helped by the growing number of Chinese customers, data showed Monday, amid China retaliating against South Korea over Seoul’s plans to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system on its soil. China has been retaliating against Seoul’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the ballooning volume of e-commerce, deficits for online shopping malls are also bloating with even a rough estimate pointing to over 1 trillion won (US$876.88 million) last year, industry officials said Tuesday. Industry records showed the country’s three leading social commerce sites — Coupang, Ticket Monster and WeMakePrice [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Online shopping in South Korea reached a fresh record high in December on the back of a steady upbeat trend of buying goods through computers and mobile phones, government data showed Friday. Total online transactions reached a record 6.2 trillion won (US$5.4 billion) in December, up 15.4 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s exports through e-commerce platforms have increased sharply this year, apparently helped by the government’s policy support, data showed Friday. Outbound shipments via the Internet and other e-commerce sites totaled US$985 million in the first 11 months, according to the Korea Customs Service (KCS). The volume is projected [...]
SEJONG, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Online shopping in South Korea reached a fresh record high in October on a nationwide discount event, a government report showed Friday. Total online transactions reached a record 5.6 trillion won (US$4.8 billion) in October, up 17.3 percent from 4.8 trillion won a year earlier, according to the report [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s online sales of goods abroad have more than doubled over the past year, official data showed Wednesday. The amount came to 550.2 billion won (US$480 million) in the third quarter of 2016, up 105.4 percent from a year earlier, according to the Statistics Korea. The sharp growth [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Online shopping sales in South Korea jumped 17.4 percent on-year to hit a record high in July on upbeat demand for leisure and tourism bookings and electronic devices, a government report showed Thursday. Total online transactions reached 5.56 trillion won (US$4.98 billion) in the seventh month of 2016, compared [...]
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 [...]
SEJONG, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – While the popularity of direct buying is taking a step back, the market is seeing some changes in the products being sought by consumers, as well as the countries they’re ordering from. According to the Korea Customs Service (KCS), 8.15 million direct purchases were made during the first half of [...]