SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks Coffee Korea has been ordered to compensate a customer for providing only one free coffee after the consumer won an event that originally promised a free drink every day for a year, the plaintiff’s lawyer said Wednesday. The customer, surnamed Ko, filed the case with the Seoul Central [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The average South Koreans drank 500 cups of coffee last year, reflecting its popularity as a favorite beverage item consumed between meals, industry data showed Sunday. The coffee consumption in Asia’s fourth-largest economy is estimated to have reached about 25.05 billion cups at the end of 2016, up 25 [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of Environment (MoE) in collaboration with Starbucks Korea and the Korea Zero Waste Movement Network held an event at Seoul Forest yesterday to celebrate Arbor Day, which is today. The event encouraging the recycling of resources including used coffee grounds took place as yesterday marked 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, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks Coffee Korea, the local unit of the U.S. coffee giant, said Thursday that its annual sales topped the 1 trillion won (US$884.17 million) mark for the first time ever last year after its first shop opened here in 1999. Starbucks Coffee, which is operated by retail conglomerate Shinsegae [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks Korea is killing two birds with one stone – improving sales by making customers happier. According to the coffeemaker Thursday, the number of participants on its mobile survey platform “My Starbucks Review” has exceeded one million. Surveys are offered to Starbucks members who use Siren Order – ordering [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A series of 50,000 special edition “coin pouches” that Starbucks Korea introduced to celebrate the New Year sold out in just five days, the company announced Sunday. The artificial leather pouch, which came in two colors – gold and silver – with the Starbucks’ logo on it, was specially [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Starbucks Coffee Korea has become the first coffeemaker to introduce digital receipts, according to a company statement on Monday. According to Starbucks, the new program will be offered to its My Starbucks Rewards members, who will be issued digital receipts instead of paper ones when they place their orders [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Rising international coffee prices this year could hit South Korea soon, industry officials said Tuesday, although major franchises and coffee companies say they have no immediate plans for a markup. The International Coffee Organization (ICO) in its October report noted the significant rise in coffee prices, with Robusta, used [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – A Korean-designed holiday cup is now in use at 23,000 Starbucks coffeehouses in 75 countries across the world. According to Starbucks Korea, a design by 24-year-old Kwon Eun-joo was selected as one of the 13 cups for this year’s Red Cup Contest on Instagram, hosted by the global coffee [...]