SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Retailers are adding evening programs at their culture centers to accommodate office workers who will have extra time due to shortened legal working hours starting next month, industry officials said Tuesday. More customers are registering in evening classes at some retailers, including Hyundai Department Store, which increased after-work programs [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Retail investors have expanded their portfolio in South Korea’s junior KOSDAQ bourse, leading to the market’s recent upturn, data showed Wednesday. On Tuesday, the tech-laden KOSDAQ rose 0.48 percent to close at 901.22, the first time in about two and half months that the index surpassed the 900-point mark. [...]
NEUHAUSEN, Switzerland, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Tyco Retail Solutions today announced it has surpassed 63 billion consumer products source tagged to date, helping retailers protect more of what’s in store. Setting a retail industry milestone with Sensormatic merchandise source tagging, the program has also achieved seven years of consecutive growth since 2011. Tyco’s program [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s online shopping malls are expected to post a combined 1 trillion won (US$915 million) operating loss this year as they offer excessive discounts in a competition with rivals to dominate the growing market, industry sources said Wednesday. The rising losses over the past few years come amid [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Just past noon on a recent Monday, a 30-something woman entered a small brick-and-mortar shop in the heart of Seoul, the kind of commonly seen convenience store in South Korea that sells a little bit of everything. Except, it was locked until the shopper tagged her credit card on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Yonhap) — South Korea’s three leading department store operators will not open new branches in the next two years as local consumers increasingly opt for online shopping, industry sources said Thursday. Lotte, Hyundai and Shinsegae, which account for 80 percent of the department store market in South Korea, have no plans to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailers are placing big bets on their own private-label brand (PB) products to take advantage of customers’ growing appetite for low-priced but relatively good quality products. Local retail companies, such as Lotte and Shinsegae Group, began to sell a couple of PB products, including milk, in their [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major retailers are pumping up efforts to prepare for a potential inflow of Chinese tourists amid signs of a thaw in Sino-Korean relations, industry sources said Wednesday. Last week, Seoul and Beijing agreed to put bilateral ties back on track, setting aside their bitter row over the [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s retail giants, faced with cut-throat competition in the rapidly saturating domestic market, are turning their attention to overseas markets in conjunction with small and mid-sized businesses to secure a new growth driver, industry watchers said Thursday. The country’s three major retail conglomerates – Shinsegae Group, Lotte Group [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Large retailers in South Korea are claiming that they are being discriminated against by card firms over commission rates which could eat into their bottom lines amid a protracted economic slowdown, industry sources said Monday. According to the sources, some large-sized retailers have demanded a reduction in commission rates [...]