books. It makes kyobobooks not just only bookstore but place offering entertainment. These are designed with the flow of customers movements.
3. Purchasing management : Outsourcing
Kyobobooks are focusing on service, not publishing. Thus, publishers outsource sales to Kyobobooks and Kyobobooks sell books in their stores. Big publishers which contract with Kyobobooks transact directly but
of online transaction, but the usage of accounts to e-mail (such as PayPal) and deferring billing system like Bill Me Later is growing steadily (See exhibit 4). Unlike the reason of industry growth from e-commerce market, this industry’s growth is based on the number of users and their usage. As eBay has two main players – PayPal and Bill Me Later, the forecast of online payment division
1. Lotte Mart’s Background
1.1 Background History & Development
Lotte Mart is one of the “BIG3” big-box retailers- together with E-Mart, and Homeplus- in Korea, and is currently expanding its stores to other neighboring countries. The lines of commodities sold in Lotte Mart vary greatly from groceries, clothing, toys, to electronics and many others. Although Lotte Mart was a secondary
Microsoft or Google are trying hard to catch up and outperform Apple.
5. 5 FORCES (Why did you choose O-S as an industry?)
NEW ENTRANTS => weak
Considering the importance of operating-systems company in the value chain of wireless industry, we can say that there is no firm that can prevail global wireless industry except the bigthree companies – Apple, Microsoft and Google. (Why?)
Korean drinking culture. At first, people seemed to be embarrassed. Later, however they became excited with unfamiliar coffee names listed on the menu and thought worth to spend money although it was more expensive than one meal.
3. Inspiring culture of equality
(1) Korean hierarchical culture
Historically Koreans are accustomed to hierarchical culture. When Starbucks came to Korea and ope