SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea rose 11.5 percent in January from a year earlier, with the proportion of transactions via mobile devices reaching a record high, amid the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic, data showed Thursday. The value of online shopping transactions stood at 16.54 trillion won (US$13.74 billion) in January, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea hit a record high in November as more people bought products via e-commerce platforms amid the new coronavirus pandemic, data showed Tuesday. The value of online transactions stood at 15.1 trillion won (US$13.8 billion) in November, up 17.2 percent from the previous year, according [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With a growing number of South Koreans tapping into online transactions due to the coronavirus pandemic, a recent survey has revealed that preferred mobile applications for online transactions differ by age groups. Market researcher Nielsen KoreanClick reported Monday that Coupang topped usage among all age groups. The rankings that [...]
SINGAPORE, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) - Adyen, the global payments technology company, today published the 2015 Q4 edition (Sept-Dec) of its quarterly Mobile Payments Index, which tracks mobile payment data from browser-based transactions across Adyen’s customer base. The key finding of this Mobile Payments Index is that for the first time, over a third (34%) of browser-based [...]