SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks is set to open its biggest store in South Korea in Seoul’s Jongno district on Wednesday, in a move to solidify the brand’s already strong presence in an increasingly competitive market. The much-anticipated coffee shop at Jongno Tower covers 1,097 square meters of floor space on the first [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Marking its 17th anniversary last year, Starbucks Korea’s annual revenue exceeded 1 trillion won for the first time, and much attention is being paid to what is behind the international coffee giant’s long-lived success in the country. Of the 75 countries that Starbucks currently operates in, only in five [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks Korea’s latest promotional campaign to provide free coffee to soldiers who are on special leave granted by the president is triggering controversy among some women. Women’s organizations such as WOMAD and Megalia have been bombarded with comments and complaints regarding the recent promotion, with many claiming that it is [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A Seoul based NGO has filed a complaint with the Ministry of Drug and Food Safety, saying that Starbucks Korea is violating the Food Sanitation Act by not indicating the prices of short-sized beverages on its menus. According to the Seoul YMCA, Starbucks Korea officially sells four sizes of drinks [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea is launching a new menu item called ‘Urinara Ok.Go.Gam.’ The dish translates into ‘Korea’s Corn, Sweet Potatoes and Potatoes’ and is composed of a corn, a sweet potato and a potato farmed in Gangwondo and Jeollabukdo, and served warm in a package. The 3,800 won meal is a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey by a specialty coffee franchise revealed that people enjoy a cup of coffee most after their lunch time. Starbucks Korea, to mark its 15-year anniversary in Korea, has conducted a survey of consumer consumption patterns on 30,000 visitors of its official Facebook page since last July, and revealed [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Over the series of increases in coffee prices of major coffee shop franchises, a consumer group warned a show of force arguing the markups are groundless. The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf raised the price of a small-sized cup of Americano by 4.7 percent, from 4,300 won to 4,700 won, [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Now, you can easily order menus in Starbucks coffee shops in Korea through a mobile app and don’t need to wait in line for orders and drink. Starbucks Korea announced that it launched, for the first time in all of Starbucks in the world, a “Siren Order” service, in which orders [...]