SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart Inc. said Friday it will acquire an additional 17.5 percent stake in Starbucks Coffee Korea for 474.2 billion won (US$412 million) to become the coffee chain’s largest shareholder. The stake purchase would raise South Korea’s top discount chain operator’s interest in the leading coffee franchise in Asia’s fourth-largest [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — E-Mart, South Korea’s biggest discount store chain operator, topped other businesses by recruiting the largest number of new employees over the past five years, a local think tank said Sunday. In a survey carried out on the country’s top 30 conglomerates’ affiliates which employ more than 300 people, E-Mart [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea said Monday it has introduced a simpler authentication for WiFi in local shops, as consumers complained about discrimination after the company had required local customers to fill out twice as many fields compared with those for foreigners. In the new Korean-language WiFi authentication webpage showcased Monday, users [...]