SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator plans to begin a probes into Starbucks-issued unregistered pre-paid cards. The Financial Supervisory Service has received a list of some 50 companies, including Starbucks Coffe Korea, which are operating an unregistered prepaid card system. Starbucks allows customers to charge their Starbucks cards through its mobile [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Facing protests for a better working environment, Starbucks Coffee Korea plans to hire a significant number of new employees and raise wages for managers and staff. The local unit of the U.S. coffee giant announced that it will recruit 1,600 new employees nationwide starting on Friday in addition to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Customers are lining up at Starbucks stores once again, this time to buy the newly released Halloween goods and merchandise. Starbucks Coffee Korea released 23 items, two cards, three drinks and seven food products on Tuesday in celebration of Halloween. Each Starbucks outlet displayed a sign that listed the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Coffee Korea is facing demands from its employees to improve working conditions, as they staged a demonstration Thursday in protest of excessive workload stemming from the company’s marketing events. The Korean unit of the global coffee chain’s yearly sales jumped from 773.9 billion won (US$647 million) in 2015 to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Employees of Starbucks coffee stores staged a demonstration Thursday in protest of excessive workload stemming from the company’s marketing events. Two trucks hired by Starbucks Coffee Korea workers drove around Seoul from 10 a.m. with signs calling for improved work conditions attached on their sides. The event will continue [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea employees are considering staging a protest over their excessive workload. Industry sources said that several Starbucks employees are communicating via Blind, an anonymous chat app for employed workers and staff, to stage a protest in trucks to demand a better working environment. Starbucks Korea does not have [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — MINI, BMW AG’s sub-brand for compact vehicles, has joined hands with Starbucks Korea to come up with a new style of marketing. Almost all of the limited merchandise released by the two companies has been sold out after just three days. Considering that this is a seasonal event open [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea, the local unit of the U.S. coffee giant, is tapping into the delivery market. The number of Starbucks outlets offering delivery services increased from six to 25 on Tuesday, with the company hoping to reach 80 to 100 stores offering delivery services in the Seoul and Gyeonggi [...]
SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea said Wednesday that it plans to discontinue the use of disposable cups at four of its stores on the southern resort island of Jeju from next month. On Wednesday, the local unit of the U.S. coffee giant signed a pilot program cooperation agreement with the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Starbucks Korea said Tuesday that customers will be able to purchase no more than 20 special drinks for each order during the company’s Summer e-frequency promotions. This measure is intended to prevent last year’s fierce competition which involved some customers hoarding drinks to win prizes. Starbucks’ “summer ready bag,” [...]