SEOUL, Mar. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Starting March 26, members of Coupang’s premium subscription service, Wow, will be able to order food through the company’s delivery platform, Coupang Eats, without paying any delivery fees, the company announced. In a bid to alleviate the burden of delivery costs for consumers, Coupang Eats will introduce an “unlimited free [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – In South Korea, the rising trend of subscribing to multiple Over-The-Top (OTT) and online streaming services, such as Netflix, YouTube, Disney Plus, and Tving, is facing a new challenge: a series of price hikes that are increasing stress among subscribers. Recently, Netflix, already under scrutiny for banning account sharing among [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The subscription rate for pet insurance policies continues to languish at extremely low levels. The number of contracts for general insurance for dogs and cats stood at 33,621 as of late last year, which was merely 0.4 percent of the estimated number of all pets in the country (8.6 [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A subscription-based tourism product, the first of its kind in South Korea, has been introduced by a state-run tourism promotion agency. The product was designed by combining the concept of travel with the recent subscription economy trend, in which consumers are provided a variety of products and services customized [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. streaming giant Netflix Inc. is estimated to have brought in record-high paid subscriptions in South Korea last month, industry data showed Tuesday. An estimated 3.62 million viewers in South Korea presumably paid 51.4 billion won (US$45.9 million) for subscriptions in October, almost twofold from 26.2 billion won in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, said Wednesday it launched a subscription-based game streaming service, joining other telecom operators to capture the local cloud game market. The service, named GameBox, streams PC and console games on smartphones using cloud technology and offers around 100 games at launch, [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizewire) — Global video streaming platform Netflix Inc. is estimated to have brought in record-high paid subscriptions in April amid the coronavirus pandemic, industry data showed Tuesday. An estimated 2 million paid viewers in South Korea presumably paid 43.9 billion won (US$35.5 million) for subscriptions last month, up 21 percent from [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — A new trend is emerging where consumers order coffee from delivery apps or apply for monthly subscriptions to enjoy coffee. The new trend is replacing the trend of making and drinking coffee at home. Innocean Worldwide Inc., a major local advertising agency, released a data analysis report that analyzed [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Delivery subscriptions for products other than conventional newspapers or milk are becoming more popular in South Korea, and now address a variety of needs and wants including personal interests and pastime activities. According to BINS 3.0, SK Planet’s social analysis system, online mentions of “delivery subscription” – on blogs, [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of overseas subscribers of South Korean YouTube channels has tripled over the past year, the Global video-sharing giant said Wednesday, forecasting further growth in the local online video streaming market. The viewing time of videos posted by 100 local YouTube channels jumped threefold between May 2015 and [...]