SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s homegrown craft beer has increasingly gained popularity over recent years, industry data showed Sunday, as local brewers offer a wide range of flavors at competitive prices. The local craft beer market was valued at 118 billion won (US$105.6 million) as of 2020, sharply up from 43.3 billion [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Clubhouse, an audio social media app, has seen its popularity plunge over the past couple of months. Sources from the IT industry reported that the number of active South Korean users has dropped significantly since March. Top internet portal Naver showed that the search index for the word ‘clubhouse’ [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The popularity of practical minivans is growing in South Korea as the COVID-19 pandemic has given a big boost to car-centered leisure activities including outdoor camping and “chabak” (sleeping in car). Since being rolled out in August 2020, Kia Corp. has already sold 58,942 units of the company’s all-new [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — So-called ‘ugly’ agricultural products, which are fine in terms of quality but have rather ‘eccentric’ outward features, are gaining popularity among consumers. The Korea Consumer Agency conducted a survey of 2,000 consumers, 60.5 percent of whom had purchased ‘ugly’ agricultural products in the past. Among them, 95.5 percent said [...]
DAEGU, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — In the first month of this year, the retail industry in the southeastern city of Daegu saw sales of safes for home use jump sharply. Lotte Department Store’s Daegu Branch saw sales of safes for home use rise by 35.7 percent in January compared to a year ago, while [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Skin snacks such as pig skin are gaining popularity as a growing number of Koreans are staying indoors to avoid the coronavirus. Gmarket, an online shopping mall, reported that snacks made with pollack skin were 21 times higher from January 1 to 25 compared to the same period last [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Global consumers picked kimchi as their most preferred Korean dish, a poll showed Thursday, amid the growing popularity of traditional Korean food, known as hansik, in line with the boom of the country’s pop culture around the world. Nearly 34 percent of the respondents said they preferred eating kimchi, [...]
SEOUL, June 19 (Korea Bizwire) — When Kim Ga-in, a Seoul resident, climbed a mountain on Sunday, the 27-year-old woman did not wear hiking pants or shorts or other traditional trekking clothes. Instead, she went with a more comfortable option that would have been unheard of among hikers a generation ago: leggings. Her sister, Do-hee, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — With an increase in the so-called ‘ten pocket’ phenomenon, where parents, grandparents, relatives, and other acquaintances, due to a low birthrate, open up their wallets to spend on a single child, expensive high-end toys are gaining popularity. Auction, a South Korean online shopping mall, conducted a one-month study on [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Overseas sales of Choco pie, Bibigo Mandu and Shin Ramen all exceeded 300 billion won (US$263.8 million) last year, a milestone for South Korean food producers that have strived to expand into new markets amid tanking demand at home, industry data showed Sunday. The three products, often referred to [...]