SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Global tech giant Google Inc. is facing criticism in South Korea for putting consumer protection on the back burner despite having an unrivaled presence in the domestic mobile operating system (OS) market. Today, Google commands a share of more than 70 percent of the nation’s mobile OS market. On [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean hotels are under transformation to survive the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Lotte Hotel Seoul sold 13 types of traditional cuisines on a drive-thru basis during the Lunar New Year holiday. The hotel started selling hotel food on a drive-thru basis in March 2020, a first among [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid the increase in the number of consumers who refrain from going far away from their homes due to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, a variety of convenient services offered by convenience stores are gaining growing popularity. Convenience store chain CU saw the use of its parcel delivery [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — As so-called ‘untact’ or contactless consumption is on the increase amid the coronavirus pandemic, the lines that once stood between the retail and delivery sectors are disappearing as market players are jumping into each other’s territories. Delivery Hero Stores Korea, a subsidiary of Germany-based online delivery service provider Delivery [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech firms are joining the race for the growing remote work market, industry officials said Friday, as businesses brace for a drawn-out fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. The country’s workplaces have been reshaped this year as many companies opt to keep their workers out of offices to [...]
BUSAN, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Struggling with the coronavirus, a five-star hotel in the southern port city of Busan has decided to provide food delivery services as well as drive-thru services to sustain business. With the spread of ‘untact’ services, Lotte Hotel Busan launched a new drive-thru menu on Monday to meet growing demand for [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Once regarded as having an attitude towards customers bordering on arrogance, luxury hotels are making a about-face in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis. Luxury hotels have a strong sense of crisis that they may not be able to survive with old-fashioned services that have been in place for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Under the government directive to hold socially distanced services, churches in Seoul remained empty on Sunday with some exceptions. This was the first Sunday since the government increased the intensity of its social distancing guidelines in Seoul and its surrounding regions a week ago. Placed under Level 2 in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite its overwhelming speed and data processing advantages, South Korea’s 5G service is facing growing consumer complaints primarily for poor call quality resulting from a shortage of 5G base stations, a consumer watchdog said Wednesday. The number of applications for 5G service-related damage redress filed by consumers during the [...]
SOUTHBOROUGH, Mass., July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Virtusa Corporation (NASDAQ GS: VRTU), a global provider of digital strategy, digital engineering, and IT services and solutions that help clients change and disrupt markets through innovation engineering, today announced new enterprise cost optimization services that balance the need to reduce cost and remain competitive. Adverse global market conditions are [...]