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 [...]
![[In-depth] “Kakao Taxi” Expected to Change Landscape of Korean Taxi App Market](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/30244206_m-800x533.jpg "[In-depth] “Kakao Taxi” Expected to Change Landscape of Korean Taxi App Market")
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 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean government will ban the car-sharing service of Uber on the grounds of passenger safety. To this, Uber countered that it is providing a legitimate service. It remains to be seen how the controversy would unfold. The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transportation on August 29 sent an official [...]
![[Feature] Illegal Taxi vs. Creative Economy: “Uber” Controversy Rages on](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/10049868_m-800x545.jpg "[Feature] Illegal Taxi vs. Creative Economy: “Uber” Controversy Rages on")
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – “Uber,” a smartphone app-based private taxi service currently mired in a controversy after the Seoul city government banned the service for passenger safety concerns, will strengthen its presence in Korea. Allen Penn, the head of Hong Kong-based Asia operations for Uber, held a press conference on August 6 and underscored the [...]