SEOUL -- As the operator of a burger shop in southern Seoul, Hwang Seong-koo had a growing feeling that he was not feeding customers so much as sating the appetite of online delivery services like Coupang Eats and Baedal Minjok, known as Baemin.
Many of the online service providers that the South Korean government seeks to restrain are local companies, rather than American ones. (Illustration by Yoshiko Kawano)
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