SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The government has cleared the way for the launch of taxi sharing services although the service will be available only to passengers who are of the same gender. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announced that the new enforcement ordinance of the taxi industry development law will take [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Taxi sharing, banned in South Korea for the past four decades, will be revived in a new way in Seoul this week thanks to the development of IT technology, the city government said Thursday. The Seoul government said cab ride-sharing services can be offered legally in the capital starting [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A new late-night taxi-sharing and matching service was launched in Seoul on Thursday. The Seoul Metropolitan Government (SMG) and the service’s operator, Kornatus, announced the launch of the “Banban (half-half in Korean) Taxi” service. Banban Taxi is a mobile application-based service that matches passengers with similar routes so that [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT has received a special regulatory exemption to test run an app-based voluntary taxi-sharing service. Kornatus, a South Korean taxi-sharing service provider, will test run an application app that hails taxis with other passengers who are going to a similar destination. Between 10 p.m. [...]