SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The Michelin Guide on Thursday announced the 2021 Michelin Guide for Seoul, awarding stars to 32 restaurants here that offer extraordinary cuisine. This year’s awards, livestreamed in light of the pandemic, featured a total of 178 Seoul restaurants, the same as last year. Gwendal Poullennec, international director of the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s agricultural ministry said Thursday it has collaborated with the country’s top online portal operator Naver Corp. to provide information on restaurants that follow guidelines on the prevention of the new coronavirus. The government said earlier it will release data on restaurants that follow sanitary guidelines and induce [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus outbreak rages on, a number of buffet restaurants in the greater Seoul area are offering table service as part of efforts to make the best of the situation. La Seine, Lotte Hotel Seoul’s upscale buffet restaurant, will begin serving some 70 dishes directly at the table, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — A big data analysis has revealed that the once popular consumer trends of exploring gourmet restaurants and having get-togethers after work, which have bolstered the growth of restaurant businesses in South Korea, have declined sharply due to the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic. The state-run Small Enterprise and Market Service carried [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — As the coronavirus continues to rage on, an increasing number of small restaurants are jumping into the delivery business. The phenomenon of an overwhelming number of businesses attempting to join delivery platforms is resulting in processing delays for each application. Vroong, a food delivery platform, reported that the number [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Demand for food delivery service has surged following torrential summer rain and the coronavirus outbreak. But food vendors are frustrated after delivery platforms decided to raise their commission fees last month. Some experts argue that major e-commerce compoanies such as Coupang are responsible for heightening commission rates as they [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has showed that most of South Korea’s delivery app-affiliated restaurants are feeling a huge burden from the costs that they have to pay to delivery app operators. The Seoul Metropolitan Government, the Incheon Metropolitan Government and the Gyeonggi Provincial Government jointly carried out a survey of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it will release data on restaurants that follow sanitary guidelines meant to avoid the spread of the new coronavirus to induce people to dine out more without being excessively concerned about safety. “The data on the safe restaurants will speed up the efforts to prevent [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Map users will now be able to receive recommendations of nearby restaurants through artificial intelligence (AI) technology. Naver Corp., South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, announced Monday that it will introduce ‘Smart Around’, a new AI-based location recommendation service, for Naver Map. Smart Around, first developed in 2018, [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of restaurants, bars and coffee shops that have closed this year in downtown Seoul areas such as Gangnam and Jongro has risen sharply due to the outbreak of the coronavirus. According to an analysis of the Seoul Open Data Square’s data on the current state of food [...]