SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Uber, an app-based ride-sharing service provider, has signed a marketing deal with Philippine Airlines in a bid to reach out to South Koreans, officials said Wednesday. The U.S. transportation firm has been struggling to take root in South Korea, a key Asian economy with a population of more than 50 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Uber Technologies Inc. said Tuesday it released a premium cab-hailing service in South Korea as part of efforts to tap deeper into the local market and catch up with its bigger rival Kakao Corp. The service, dubbed Uber BLACK, allows users to book premium taxis through a smartphone application. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Uber, the controversial ride-booking mobile app, will make a fresh start in Seoul with its high-end version to be serviced on a popular Korean-made luxury sedan, its U.S. operator said Wednesday, seeking to set foot here for the second time after the business hit a snag due to opposition [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecom watchdog said Wednesday it will take a closer look into KakaoTaxi, a cab-hailing mobile application rolled out by the country’s top messenger operator Daum Kakao, on whether it has failed to abide by its terms of use related to location privacy. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger, KakaoTalk, rolled out Tuesday its cab-booking mobile application for smartphone users, extending the service to a full lineup after it launched a similar platform for taxi drivers early this year. KakaoTaxi, available for downloading at Google Play for Android users, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Uber Korea, a mobile app operator linking drivers and passengers, decided to make its ride-sharing service Uber X free of charge in Seoul in an attempt to counter the city government’s ban on its operations, and to protect its Uber drivers. On February 25, Uber said, “The decision was [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Uber Technologies Inc., the provider of the controversial taxi-hailing app, proposed Wednesday that the South Korean government allow local Uber drivers to become licensed, stressing that the U.S. startup is willing to work with local officials to resolve pending legal issues. David Plouffe, the senior vice president of policy [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecommunications watchdog decided Thursday to refer the local unit of U.S. cab-hailing service provider Uber Technologies Inc. to the prosecution for violation of rules, adding to the string of legal challenges the U.S. venture startup faces here and abroad. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said in a [...]
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SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – As Daum Kakao, Korea’s largest mobile messenger service provider, is set to launch a mobile call taxi service “Kakao Taxi” by the first quarter of next year amid the ongoing controversy over Uber, the taxi app industry is likely to undergo a sea change. Comparing to Uber which was [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Uber eventually starts to run a taxi service called UberTaxi from October 23 in Seoul. Uber has been right in the center of controversies in many countries for its allegedly unlawful activities. Taxi drivers who registered themselves on Uber can carry passengers for a fee. The drivers and the passengers [...]