Yangcheon-gu Equipped with the Three Essentials: Delivery Apps, Online Reservations, and Digital Marketing

Yangcheon-gu Signs Business Agreement to Support Online Promotion for 'Uri Gage' Small Business Owners... Linking 'Youth Digital Supporters' Project to Aid Small Business Digitalization

[Asia Economy Reporter Jongil Park] Yangcheon-gu (Mayor Kim Soo-young) signed a “Business Agreement for Digitalization and Market Support for Small Business Owners in Yangcheon-gu” with Nines (CEO Seo Kyung-dong) on the 25th of last month.

Nines, a company based in Yangcheon-gu operating the small business O2O platform ‘Uri Gage’ app, supports digital marketing, customer attraction, and promotion activation for small business owners across various industries.

The main contents of this agreement include providing local small business owners with ▲ free payment fees within the ‘Uri Gage’ platform ▲ support for coupon registration costs (10 million KRW) for the ‘100% Discount Coupon’ event through advance product purchases.

Through the ‘100% Discount Coupon’ event, which offers franchise stores’ products and services for free, stores can initially promote themselves on the app, and customers around the stores participate in the event, encouraging direct visits.

This method, leading from exposure to participation and visits, enables effective promotion targeting potential customers around the stores. Small business owners wishing to join ‘Uri Gage’ can apply through the ‘Uri Gage’ homepage.

Seo Kyung-dong, CEO of Nines, said, “We want to help small business owners by supporting digitalization aligned with recent trends through the ‘Uri Gage’ app, created with the intention of coexisting and growing with small business owners struggling due to COVID-19.”

On December 21st last year, the district signed a business agreement to support small business digitalization with Honeybiz (‘Ddingdong’), a participant in the Seoul Zero Delivery Union, and Table Manager (‘Table Manager’), an online reservation management system operator.

Through this agreement, support in the digital marketing field has been secured, strengthening the three-pronged digital service support system of ‘delivery apps, online reservations, and digital marketing.’

The district plans to effectively promote such support projects by linking and promoting them with the ‘Youth Digital Supporters’ project, a small business digitalization support project promoted by the district.

Supporters will directly visit small business owners in the region to actively promote and guide the digital services of each contracted company, aiming to provide practical help to small business owners. Currently, 10 supporters are connected with 25 small business stores and are active, with plans to select 10 more in March, operating steadily with a total of 20 members until the end of the year. Small business establishments wishing to receive additional support can inquire at the district office’s Job Economy Division.

Kim Soo-young, Mayor of Yangcheon-gu, expressed gratitude to the companies participating in the agreement for small business owners and said, “I hope that various digital service supports will become an opportunity for turnaround for small business owners facing a crisis due to COVID-19.”

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.