SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Kurly Corp. the operator of South Korean e-grocery platform Market Kurly, said Wednesday it will postpone the initial public offering (IPO) originally planned for early this year, due to harsh market conditions. “We decided to push back our planned IPO with the Korea Exchange (KRX), considering the contracting investor [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea increased 7.3 percent on-year in November on the back of higher demand for travel and transportation services, data showed Tuesday. The value of online shopping transactions came to 18.12 trillion won (US$14.2 billion) in November, compared with 16.8 trillion won tallied a year earlier, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — E-commerce giant Coupang Inc. said Thursday it swung to the black in the third quarter for the first time since 2014, when it introduced its ultrafast delivery service, Rocket Delivery. Net income came to US$90.7 million in the July-September period, compared with a net loss of $324 million during [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Lotte Shopping Co. said Tuesday it has partnered with Britain’s Ocado Group Plc., a leading online grocery tech platform provider, to strengthen its e-grocery business. Through the partnership, Lotte Shopping, the retail arm of South Korea’s fifth largest conglomerate Lotte Group, plans to invest around 1 trillion won (US$705.2 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Since childhood, Kim Soo-sung, the 36-year-old CEO who founded Uh2sa Market, has always had an eye for clothing retail. He naturally acquired the know-how of sourcing and procurement of clothes, as his mother ran a small women’s apparel shop in his hometown of Hongcheon. In university, Kim majored in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang Inc. on Tuesday denied rumors that it is selling its online food delivery platform Coupang Eats. “The rumors about the sale of Coupang Eats are completely groundless,” the New York-listed e-commerce behemoth said in a statement, adding it has not had any related discussions [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Online shopping in South Korea rose 8.8 percent on-year in July as eased COVID-19 restrictions bolstered demand for travel and leisure services, and online grocery shopping continued to grow, data showed Thursday. The value of online shopping transactions came to 17 trillion won (US$12.6 billion) in July, compared with [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Singapore-based e-commerce firm Qoo10 plans to acquire TMON Inc. through a stock swap deal, industry sources said Thursday. TMON’s two major shareholders — Anchor Equity Partners and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. — have agreed on the stock swap deal with Qoo10, according to the sources. Under the deal, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean consumers are generally satisfied with live commerce, or TV home shopping-style mobile shopping, but the biggest cause of complaints lies in frequent buffering, a poll showed Sunday. According to a survey conducted by the Korea Consumer Agency of 1,500 adult consumers who had purchased products through five [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean e-grocery startup Market Kurly has partnered with RedMart, a Singaporean online grocery giant, to sell Korean food online in the Southeast Asian city-state, its operator said Thursday. Under a partnership agreement formally signed Wednesday, the South Korean company began selling 44 ready-to-eat frozen food products in Singapore [...]