SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The house cleaning service market is emerging as a new blue ocean thanks to the spread of the work-from-home trend. The demand for house cleaning, which originally targeted double income couples, is growing at an explosive rate even from single-person households and full-time homemakers. The size of the nation’s [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. has launched a new service in which the company will pick up, charge and wash a customer’s electric vehicle (EV). The South Korea’s largest automaker said Monday that it launched the ‘pickup & charging’ service for owners of the IONIQ 5, Kona Electric and IONIQ Electric [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s state weather agency said Tuesday that it will expand the scope of a service that provides information on past weather records. The service provides official weather data based on past weather observations and special reports, data which is often used as a reference to solve various disputes [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean vehicles lag behind imported cars in terms of quality, services and durability, a local market research firm said Tuesday. In a recent survey of 96,123 owners and potential buyers, a majority of them chose imported cars over domestic ones in product quality, after-sale services and durability despite [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Online shopping operators are turning to personalized services as they try to differentiate themselves in the teeming industry, taking care of small errands like shoe polishing to more extensive services that include interior remodeling, industry watchers said Monday. Further blurring the online-offline boundary, these operators are taking broader steps [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Data shows that the top 100 Korean companies in terms of market capitalization have undergone a rapid change in business sectors over the past 10 years. The rankings reflect a shift from industrial businesses such as construction and shipbuilding to ‘non-smokestack’ industries such as service and distribution. On the [...]
SEOUL, Dec.2 (Korea Bizwire) – After analyzing 43 categories of small businesses such as restaurants and both wholesalers and retailers, the Seoul Metropolitan Government reported that their 10 year survival rate was only 19.9 percent. To boost the sales of small businesses struggling to stay afloat, Seoul city officials announced on December 1 that they [...]