[Consumerwide - Hayoung Chang Reporter/Yohan Bok Reporter] On the 7th, the Ministry of Environment withdrawn their policy on disposable paper cups for commercial and non-commercial food services, including restaurants and cafes. As for the prohibition on disposable plastic straws and sticks policy,
[Consumerwide - Eunju Park / Yohan Bok Reporter] A lady with a padding jumper almost covering her face, deep inside a hat, is walking down from an apartment. She was wearing her black slippers with bare feet while holding a paper shopping bag that contained a huge box in one of her hands. "You came
[Consumerwide - Jinil Kang Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] Shopping websites, including e-commerce, began the largest scale of discount events since November. Customers are likely to press the pay button without thinking twice as soon as they see the number of stocks, which is only two to three, and
[Consumerwide - HueSoung Jun Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] Lexus Korea has been supporting the discovery of young farmers who are cultivating crops with environmental farming skills based on their own philosophies since 2018. This time, they opened an environmental lifestyle market "Siksik Market".
[Consumerwide- Youngchul Woo Reporter/ Yohan Bok Reporter] November 4th is Korean Braille Day. It's a day to commemorate Songam Pack Dooseong, who is called Sejongdaewang for people with impairments, who published and announced Korean Braille on November 4, 1926. Celebrating the day, industry began
[Consumerwide - HueSoung Jun Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] The delivery app industry is leading the way in creating a healthy and safe delivery food culture. Fake reviews and offering different prices for delivery and restaurants stop rational consumption. Not only that, aggressive driving of deliv
[Consumerwide - Jinil Kang Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] The 2023 K-Farm exposition, where you can check out smart agricultural technologies of three generations, the future industry relevant to agriculture, was held at Suwon Messe on the 2nd of November. On the first day, there were constant visit
[Consumerwide - Jinil Kang Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] Design Korea 2023 was held at Seoul Coex D Hall, and it was hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy. Design Korea is one of the oldest annual exhibitions in Korea since its first exhibition in 2003.800 businesses participated th
[Consumerwide - Jinil Kang Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] Businesses are passing on a positive influence as a part of their shared growth plan by helping small farms with the discovery of sales partners, offering more work places in local areas, and facilitating a funding programme as a part of prac
[Consumerwide - Hayoung Chang Reporter/Yohan Bok Reporter] Businesses are announcing their new ESG determination by publishing their ESG performance report and claiming a slogan.Kolon FnC has published their first ESG activity report, which demonstrates their will to lead circulation fashion in the
[Consumerwide - Hayoung Chang Reporter/Yohan Bok Reporter] Businesses are encouraging safety and environmental activities in local society through each campaign that characterises their products.Jeju Samdasoo is facilitating an environmental campaign, Green Routine, which trains students in the Jeju
[Consumerwide- Youngchul Woo Reporter/ Yohan Bok Reporter] On the 1st of November, referring to KCGS, they evaluated 987 public companies for ESG and 62 privately owned companies for business management. Amongst them, 19 companies were evaluated as having an A+ level in total areas, which is a 1.9%
[Consumerwide - HueSoung Jun Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] Uniqlo is clearly targeting the outlet market, starting with Hyundai Premium Outlet and now Lotte Premium Outlet. This can be interpreted as Uniqlo beginning to expand its branches to outlet malls instead of remaining in department stores a
[Consumerwide - HueSoung Jun Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] Burger King is beginning the era of burgers with a set menu of over 20 thousand won along with their premium burger menu release. Now it costs at least 80 thousand won for lunch in the case of a family with four members. Prior to this new r
.[Consumerwide - HueSoung Jun Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] There have been continuous visits to the Lush Korea booth, which has installed an experimental space for resource circulation value contents during the ‘Seoul Design 2023’. Lush Korea designed the booth with methods of reuse, recycling, an
[Consumerwide - Jinil Kang Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] Three major communication businesses are continuing their ESG activities. Each business has begun its ESG activities. KT is initiating a film festival for people with visual impairments and an award event for a citizen with good deeds. LGU+ i
[Consumerwide - Jinil Kang Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] Seoul Design 2023, which is the representative design festival of Seoul hosted by Seoul Metropolitan City and facilitated by the Seoul Design Foundation and presents new designers and design works while sharing design and industry trend infor
[Consumerwide- Youngchul Woo Reporter/ Yohan Bok Reporter] On the 29th of October last year, a deadly Halloween disaster occurred in Itaewon. 159 people who came out to enjoy the Halloween festival died due to a crowd surge. This disaster raised awareness of the crowd surge in Korean society and led
[Consumerwide - Hayoung Chang Reporter/Yohan Bok Reporter] Beauty businesses, including Loccitane and Amorepacific, are facilitating an ESG support project and an eye-care campaign. Loccitane has passed on donations worth 83 million won to the Heart-Heart Foundation through the "eye love Loccitane c
[Consumerwide - Jinil Kang Reporter / Yohan Bok Reporter] McDonald's and Mom's Touch began raising burger prices due to the rising prices of raw materials. Other burger brands say that they do not plan for a price rise. However, it is still expected.Annually, McDonald's has raised prices twice: in F