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A pet park complex that features daycare centers for pets as well as pet swimming pools is coming soon. Retail giant Hyundai Department Store Group announced Tuesday that one of the largest ‘pet parks’ in South Korea will open at the new Hyundai Premium…
Hyundai Department Store is hoping to cash in on Korea’s growing preference for premium rice with Hyundai Rice House, its new chain rice stores. Hyundai Rice House, which opened inside four existing Hyundai Department Stores on Wednesday, offers around 20…
South Korean fashion label Handsome says it will release the country’s first clothes designed with artificial intelligence technology. Handsome, an affiliate of Hyundai Department Store Group, said it joined forces with Designovel to create new patterns for…
South Korea’s retail conglomerate Hyundai Department Store Group opens its first duty-free store at its branch in Samseong-dong, southern Seoul, on November 1 as a newcomer into the lucrative duty-free race dominated by two other retail names, Lotte and…
Hyundai and Amazon plan to develop a “next-generation” retail model amid South Korean retailers’ push to adopt the latest technology to their online and offline platforms. Under the strategic collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Service (AWS) Korea signed…
Givenchy Beauty will open its first South Korean store this month. The cosmetics and skin-care line of the French luxury fashion house Givenchy has taken space in the Hyundai Department Store in the trendy southern Seoul district of Apgujeong. The first store…
Hyundai Department Store is introducing last-minute measures to comply with the new 52-hour workweek, which goes into effect next week. Korea’s third-largest department store chain is reducing the working hours of its sales staff by one hour, the company said…
A staff member at the Piaget boutique in Hyundai Department Store’s World Trade Center location introduces the 1.1 billion won ($985,340) Limelight Stella watch from the brand’s Exceptional Pieces collection. The watch’s dial and bracelet are encrusted with…
Hyundai Department Store in Seoul has opened a shop-in-shop that brings together Kelly Park and Démoo in the first use of its new Artspace installation dedicated to brand and artist collaborations. Artspace, by multi-disciplinary design studio NBDC, is…
Hyundai Department Store’s online mall has launched an augmented reality (AR) service so its customers can virtually try on make-up products. It covers more than 20 products from eight beauty brands, including Benefit, Estee Lauder and Shu Uemura. Using an AR…
The head of South Korea’s antitrust watchdog said on Dec. 31 that the country’s large businesses groups should work hard to improve their complicated ownership structures and refrain from wielding their market dominance. “Large conglomerates should make…
Williams-Sonoma South Korea will launch in Spring after the US homewares brand appointed a local partner. Hyundai Livart Furniture, a leading Korean furniture manufacturer and distributor and an affiliate of Hyundai Department Store Group, will have exclusive…
Sales at South Korea’s department stores in December rebounded from November on year-end gift purchases, trade ministry data showed on Monday, while sales for the whole year ended on a positive note, reversing two years of decline. Combined sales last month…
South Korea’s Hyundai Department Store is buying trading company SK Networks’ fashion business for KRW326.1 billion (US$284 million). When the purchase is complete, probably by February, SK Networks (SKN) will no longer have interests in the fashion industry.…
Will offline stores disappear? When consumers began online shopping in 1994, most of them could hardly imagine that offline stores might disappear. Online shopping was a mere subsidiary to offline stores, selling only a few items then. However, the volume of…
South Korea’s department store sales rose for a third straight month in August thanks to widespread discounting ahead of a major public holiday this month, government data showed on Thursday. Combined sales at department stores run by Hyundai Department…
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