Gmarket
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Gmarket is an e-commerce website based in South Korea. The company was founded in 2000 as a subsidiary of Interpark, and was acquired by eBay in 2009, who subsequently sold it to Shinsegae at 3.4 trillion Korean Won.
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Vinony's link graph records 42 inbound references to Gmarket, and connects out to Nasdaq, eBay and The Chosun Ilbo.
It sits within the topics 2000 establishments in South Korea, 2006 initial public offerings and 2009 mergers and acquisitions.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Website
- Country
- South Korea
- Headquarters
- Gangnam District
- Industry
- e-commerce
- Official website
- www.gmarket.co.kr
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- inception
- 2000-00-00
- social media followers
- 122175
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- History and Incidents
- Items and services
- Profit and Transactions
- Notes
- References
- External links
Gmarket is an e-commerce website based in South Korea. The company was founded in 2000 as a subsidiary of Interpark, and was acquired by eBay in 2009, who subsequently sold it to Shinsegae at 3.4 trillion Korean Won.
==History and Incidents== The predecessor of Gmarket was founded in 1999 by Young Bae Ku. At the time, it was part of the online auction company Interpark. In 2000, it spun off as its own website, known as Goodsdaq. In 2003, the website was renamed Gmarket and adopted a customer to customer e-commerce business model.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gmarket” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.