SEOUL, Apr. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it will collaborate with retail giant Shinsegae to develop a next-generation retail business model based on 5G and an advanced ICT platform. SK Telecom and Shinsegae I&C Co., Shinsegae’s IT subsidiary, signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a new [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail conglomerate Shinsegae Group said Tuesday its luxury concept store BoonTheShop will open at an upscale U.S. department store. The launch of BoonTheShop at Bergdorf Goodman Inc. — a luxury department store chain based in New York City — is the South Korean retailer’s third overseas outlet. [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Group, the operator of South Korea’s biggest discount store chain Emart, said Monday that it will integrate its online shopping mall operations into SSG.COM from next month to boost sales. The retail conglomerate will launch SSG.COM, an integrated company of two online shopping stores — the Shinsegae mall [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retailer Shinsegae International Inc. is aiming to promote South Korean designer brands. The company announced on Wednesday that it had launched ‘Select Shop’, an online store that specializes in South Korean designer brands, on its S.I.Village online shopping portal. Select Shop accommodates a total of 30 South [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Starfield, a shopping and theme park franchise operated by local retail giant Shinsegae Group, has set up South Korea’s first ‘dog lounges’ for customers and their pets. The dog lounges offer specially designed sofas for pets as well as their owners, restrooms for pets, and dog hooks where customers [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae TV Shopping, the home shopping arm of retail giant Shinsegae, showed outstanding performance in movie ticket sales as it adopted a new strategy by inviting a popular movie star to host a home shopping program that sells movie tickets. Shinsegae TV Shopping attracted more than 500,000 people to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Group, which operates high-end department stores throughout the nation, announced that it is launching a new smartphone app that will allow shoppers to check, in real-time, the wait time at restaurants situated within Shinsegae malls. Through the service, which launched at Shinsegae’s Gangnam branch yesterday and will roll [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart Everyday Inc., retail giant Shinsegae’s supermarket chain operator, said Thursday it will open a “cashier-less” store in Seoul this week in its latest effort to secure competitiveness through the use of new technologies. The 212-square-meter store in Gangnam, southern Seoul, will open Friday after remodeling to allow customers [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Shinsegae DF Inc., the duty-free arm of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae, opened its second outlet in Seoul on Wednesday, as the company accelerates its push to expand its presence in the domestic duty-free market. The five-story outlet with some 350 brands is located at Central City, which consists [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae Chosun Hotel, the accommodation arm of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae, said Tuesday it plans to open a new boutique hotel in Seoul this week, marking the first time that the business group will operate an independent hotel brand. Hotel L’Escape, located next to Shinsegae’s main department store [...]