SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — An international theme park is being planned for Hwaseong, Gyeonggi Province. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Korea Water Resources Corp. and Shinsegae Property Consortium — Shinsegae Property and Shinsegae Engineering & Construction — announced Thursday the signing of a contract to start the construction of an international [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Shinsegae DF Inc., the duty-free arm of South Korean retail giant Shinsegae, plans to hold a campaign to raise public awareness about environmental pollution caused by plastic waste and the importance of upcycling. Upcycling refers to the act of creating new products using recycled materials, refined with new design [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean retail conglomerate Shinsegae Group said Tuesday its luxury fashion brand, BoonTheShop, will open at an upscale British department store. BoonTheShop will get a space on the second floor of Harrods in London, marking the first time for a local fashion brand to do so, according to Shinsegae. [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — It is hard for consumers to live without online and mobile shopping, and for retailers already struggling with a slump in store traffic and the subsequent fall in direct to consumer sales, living up to the trend may be pronounced in the face of cutthroat competition with a slew [...]
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 [...]