SEOUL, Oct. 3 (Korea Bizwire) –The market for online e-coupon services, which provide gift certificates in the form of barcodes, is experiencing rapid growth. This surge can be attributed to the sustained popularity of non-face-to-face gifting practices that emerged during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. The online shopping industry anticipates that the transaction value of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Mobile payment platform provider Kakao Pay said Wednesday that the total value of its monthly transactions is forecast to surpass 2 trillion won (US$1.78 billion) this month for the first time since its launch. More than 1.8 trillion won worth of payments was made though the one-click payment system [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The financial regulator said Tuesday it will help people retrieve money mistakenly sent to wrong bank accounts. The move came as the number of erroneous transactions has been on the rise with more people using their smartphones for money transfers. If a person sends money to a wrong account, [...]