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South Korea’s retail and tourism industries are preparing a slew of promotional and cultural events to woo back Chinese tourists during a long-haul holiday season, pinning their hopes on making up for a summer slump in the wake of a viral respiratory illness,…
Shinsegae Co., a leading South Korean retail conglomerate, said Tuesday it will bid for a new duty-free store in downtown Seoul and relocate the current shop in the southern port city of Busan to defend the license set to expire this year. Shinsegae said it…
Customers of a 7-Eleven convenience store in South Korea can literally go dancing in the aisles… The new 7-Eleven Smart Convenience Store allows customers to enjoy virtual reality based on IT technologies. On the second floor of its Chinese Embassy store in…
South Korean retail giants HDC Shilla Duty Free and Hanwha Galleria Timeworld on Friday clinched a high-profile bid to operate duty-free stores in downtown Seoul in what is seen as a golden ticket to bolstering their footing in a retail industry struggling…
Luxurious style label Dior has opened a shocking flagship retailer in South Korea’s capital which we assure is like nothing you’ve seen anyplace on the planet ever earlier than… Designed by Christian de Portzamparc, the six storey Dior Seoul retailer contains…
Korea’s Shinsegae Group is about to open an enormous purchasing centre northwest of Seoul which it hopes will take the battle to Ikea for homewares buying. Shinsegae, one of many nation’s largest division retailer operators, will open E-Mart City on June 18,…
SK Networks, which proposed utilizing the Cerestar constructing for a brand new duty-free store, plans to develop the Dongdaemun space into an Asian Broadway. The retail arm of SK Group, the third largest family-run conglomerate in Korea, already proposed…
Singapore funding firm GIC has partnered with the Canada Pension Plan Funding Board to purchase the D-Dice Retail Mall in Seoul, South Korea from Daesung Industries. The 2 buyers has paid US$263 million for the mall. GIC and CPPIB will every personal an equal…
French confectionery brand La Cure Gourmande has chosen Korea for its Asian market debut. The sweets specialist has opened its first outlet in the continent inside the Lotte Department Store Sogong-dong downtown Seoul. The 36 sqm bright yellow coloured store…
According to the architects, Milan based Piuarch Studio, the facade of the new Givenchy flagship store references the textures and patterns used in the work of Italian artists Enrico Castellani and Lucio Fontana in the 1960s, and the optical patterns used in…