SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Woowa Brothers Corp., operator of the popular food delivery app Baedal Minjok, said Friday it shifted to a net profit in 2022 from a year earlier on increased demand for food delivery services during the pandemic. The delivery app operator swung to a net profit of 275.8 billion won [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of food delivery app Baedal Minjok, said Wednesday it has established a new company to sell and develop server robots, as demand for automated services grows in South Korea. The subsidiary called B-Robotics is wholly-owned by Woowa Brothers. The move came amid growing demand [...]
SEOUL, April 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Food delivery app owner Woowa Brothers saw its sales nearly double in 2021 from a year earlier as the prolonged COVID-19 pandemic pushed up demand for food deliveries. Woowa Brothers posted 2.008 trillion won (US$1.62 billion) in sales on a consolidated basis last year from 1.033 trillion won a [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Woowa Brothers Corp., South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, officially began offering its self-driving robot Dilly Tower at an apartment complex in Seoul’s Yeongdeungpo district on Monday. If a resident places an order via food delivery app Baedal Minjok, the delivery person loads the items onto the Dilly [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Hyundai Motor Co. and affiliate Kia Corp. will join hands with Woowa Brothers, South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, to develop unmanned delivery robots. The three companies recently signed a memorandum of understanding to start a research and development (R&D) project on robotics mobility and distribution for delivery [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The CEO of South Korea’s top food delivery app operator, Woowa Brothers Corp., said Thursday that he will donate more than half of his wealth, estimated to be more than 1 trillion won (US$905 million). “My wife Bomi Sul and I hereby pledge that we will return more than [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator on Monday gave a conditional approval to a US$4 billion deal for Germany’s Delivery Hero (DH) to buy the country’s top food delivery app operator, Woowa Brothers. The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said it granted the permission for the takeover on condition that DH [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top food delivery service app, Baedal Minjok, announced on Wednesday that it will develop a self-driving robot dedicated to food delivery service within apartment complexes. Woowa Brothers plans to complete the development of the self-driving delivery robot by the first half [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Dilly Tower, a self-driving robot currently under development by Woowa Brothers Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top food delivery application Baedal Minjok, or Baemin, will begin offering room service at hotels. Woowa Brothers said Friday it started a robot delivery room service at a hotel in Seoul’s Gwangjin [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. said Tuesday it has partnered with the country’s top delivery operator Woowa Brothers Corp. to develop a robot delivery service using 5G technology. The two companies signed an agreement to introduce SK Telecom’s 5G mobile edge computing (MEC) technology into Woowa [...]