SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. said Friday it will increase the number of cashless stores to 759 outlets across South Korea to better cater to the growing popularity of digital and credit card payments. More than 60 percent of the 1,280 stores operated by the coffee giant will only accept [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. announced on Monday that it will install air purifiers at all Starbucks stores in South Korea. The new initiative follows the company’s previous air pollution program, the Zero Fine Dust Project which began in 2017, to offer cleaner air to all customers visiting a Starbucks [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. announced on Tuesday that the quantity of disposable straws used at its stores has decreased by half since it introduced a cup lid that has no straw hole nationwide in November of last year. Ever since then, the number of disposable straws used at Starbucks [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. announced on Thursday that its Eco Bonus Star Program led to a 24 percent increase in the number of customers bringing their own cups to stores over the last month. Through the Eco Bonus Star Program, customers can save up an additional number of ‘stars’ [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. removed plastic straws from local stores and replaced them with those made with paper Monday, in line with the company’s efforts to protect the environment. The move came after Starbucks began a trial run of paper straws at around 100 shops across the country in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. said on Monday that it is planning to recycle more than 5,500 tons of coffee grounds to achieve recycle rate of 97 percent by the end of this year. Starbucks began recording the quantity of coffee grounds it was recycling in 2014 to focus on [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. is adding 300 more ‘cashless shops’ in addition to the 103 stores currently in operation, starting on Monday. Cashless stores recommend that customers use a means of payment other than cash. The company noted that adding 300 more cashless stores would amount to one-third of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — On an ordinary weekday in downtown Seoul a middle-aged woman walks into a Starbucks to order a cup of coffee. When she takes some paper bills out of her purse to pay the cashier, he politely refuses them and points to a notice at the entrance. “This store doesn’t [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. said Thursday it will test paper straws at its stores in South Korea next month to replace plastic ones as part of its efforts to protect the environment. Starbucks Coffee Korea said the two-month test operation is set to begin Sept. 10 at 100 stores [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s communications regulator has slapped a 10 million-won (US$9,000) fine on Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. for breaching personal information of hundreds of its customers, an official said Wednesday. The Korea Communications Commission said IDs, nicknames and mobile phone numbers of 537 people were disclosed due to a technical [...]