As Korea's minimum wage passes 10,000 won ($6.70), discussions are shifting toward expanding coverage for contract workers like delivery riders. . Labor groups propose either higher wages or a separate pay system for these workers.
E-commerce firm Coupang on Friday denied allegations that it lobbied U.S. government officials to pressure the Korean government following a data leak controversy that emerged in November of last year.
A delivery agency operator was sent to prosecutors for allegedly illegally employing 67 foreign nationals as delivery riders using borrowed Korean accounts, then taking illegal gains as "account usage fees,"
Woowa Brothers, the operator of the food delivery platform Baemin, is in the process of withdrawing from Vietnam, according to company filings disclosed Friday.
Small business owners are stockpiling food delivery containers as supply shortages and sharp price hikes triggered by the war in the Middle East begin to bite.
The ringleader of a group that carried out so-called revenge-for-hire attacks — including smearing excrement on victims’ front doors in exchange for money — has been detained.
Coupang interim CEO Harold Rogers expressed his gratitude to delivery workers and reemphasized the company's mission in an email to employees on Wednesday.
Coupang recently filed a patent application for a technology that analyzes inventory when a customer orders multiple items and groups them so they can be shipped together from the smallest possible number of fulfillment centers.
Coupang interim CEO Harold Rogers kept his word to give a go at dawn delivery around Gyeonggi, after promising to check the labor working environment of the company's delivery workers during a parliamentary hearing last year.
Coupang will tighten its free Rocket Delivery rules for nonmembers starting in mid-April.
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