SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy sparked after newly recruited employees sought to sell gifts from their employers at a secondhand transactions platform. A recently posted article on Blind, a workplace community app, said that some of this year’s new recruits at Samsung Electronics Co. had sold their ‘recruitment gifts’ on Danggeun Market, a [...]
SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — 7-Eleven has joined hands with a secondhand marketplace platform Joonggonara to launch non-face-to-face transactions at its stores. The convenience store chain said Thursday it had signed a business agreement with Joonggonara to promote the virtuous circulation of resources and safe transactions between individuals. Under this agreement, a seller certified [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The most searched keyword on the South Korea’s popular online secondhand marketplace was bicycle last year, the app operator said Wednesday. Last year’s most searched keyword was bicycle with about 27.22 million cases and it kept the position as the most searched keyword for seven straight quarters, according to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s major retailers are making a string of investments in secondhand marketplace platforms. Bungaejangter, the operator of the country’s first secondhand transactions app, recently attracted an investment of 82 billion won (US$68.9 million). In the latest investment round, retail giant Shinsegae Group participated as a new investor through [...]