SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Dong-yeon, the Minister of Economy and Finance and Deputy Prime Minister, said yesterday that he was committed to implementing new transportation services, including carpooling. The minister also said that if a sharing economic model was the direction of the future, then he would be fully willing to throw [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government plans to broaden its fleet of public bicycles from 20,000 to 40,000 by 2020. To stimulate the street economy, 424 bike shops across the city will be in charge of repairing and maintaining public bikes at nearby parking stations. The Seoul Housing and Communities Corporation [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Global ride-hiring application operator Uber Technologies Inc. said Wednesday that it will comply with local regulations as it seeks to expand its presence in the tech-savvy South Korean market. “We will not launch products or services in Korea that do not comply with the regulatory framework,” said Barney Harford, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Motor is poised to branch out into the car sharing service industry in partnership with carpool service provider Luxi. The automaker signaled its foray into the carpool service market on Tuesday, after making a public announcement of Project Ioniq, a joint future mobility research project with Luxi to develop [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — A new online survey has revealed Seoul Bike is the most popular government-operated sharing service among residents of Seoul. The survey, conducted by the Seoul Metropolitan Government last month with a sample of 2,500 Seoul residents, showed the satisfaction rate among users was over 91 percent, the municipal government [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean car sharing service provider Socar has become the first company to reach a total of 10 million reservations in the industry, according to a statement released on Wednesday. From February 2012 until earlier this month, more than 10 million reservations were made, with the combined mileage estimated to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Development Institute (KDI) released yesterday a report titled “Government Policy for the Stable Growth of the Sharing Economy”. The white paper presents an in-depth look at the sharing economy, and makes the proposal that current policies need to be modified to accommodate a changing service industry. The seeds [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced plans on Wednesday to invest in public sharing economy infrastructure at apartment blocks in an effort to encourage the development of communities that share. Dubbed ‘Sharing Village’, Seoul’s new infrastructure project will see bicycle and car sharing facilities, which are often scattered around the city, [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean carsharing provider Socar’s number of vehicles has exceeded 7,000 for the first time in the industry, the company said yesterday. When Socar launched its service in 2012, the company only had 100 vehicles. From then, the number increased to 400 in 2013, then 1,800 in 2014. After [...]
BRAZIL, May 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Bank of Korea (BOK) announced yesterday plans to include the sharing and digital economy in its new gross domestic product report, which will be published in 2019. The latest plan by the BOK for an overhaul of GDP statistics will see sharing services like Uber and Airbnb or [...]