SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Baemin, the leading food delivery app in South Korea, will start charging “packaging fees” for takeout orders from July 1. While existing partners will be exempt from these fees until March 2025, the move suggests that packaging intermediation services may eventually become paid offerings across the board. According to industry [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Baemin (Baedal Minjok), South Korea’s leading food delivery platform, is launching a new subscription service called “Baemin Club” that will provide unlimited discounts on delivery fees. The announcement was made on Tuesday by Woowa Brothers, the company that operates Baemin. The primary benefits of the subscription include free delivery fees [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Baedal Minjok, or Baemin, a delivery app, said Wednesday it will begin delivering Starbucks coffee and food in South Korea from later this month as it strives to strengthen its services. Starbucks has delivered its coffee, variation beverages and food products to customers through its own app. Baemin will [...]
SEOUL, March 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top food delivery app Baedal Minjok, or Baemin, saw its sales nearly double in 2020 from a year earlier amid the coronavirus pandemic, its operator said Tuesday. Baemin’s top line stood at 1.09 trillion won (US$960 million) last year, up 94.4 percent from a year earlier, according [...]
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, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s food delivery app market has turned into a money game, putting the market leader Baedal Minjok – typically referred to as Baemin – in a crisis code. To expand their presence in the rapidly growing food delivery app market, latecomers, armed with abundant capital, are chasing the [...]