Taxi Driver Union Wins Fight Against Kakao’s Ride Sharing Service
So much for the free market deciding winners and losers. This decision would be like the DVD rental industry complaining about online streaming services and the government only allowing them to stream at certain times:
The government, Kakao’s mobile transportation service affiliate and the taxi industry clinched a breakthrough agreement on Thursday to allow Kakao Mobility’s carpool service to operate at limited times.
Joong Ang Ilbo
The successful conclusion of the three-way discussions ends months of bitter disputes that led to the suspension of a beta service and immolations by three taxi drivers, two of whom died as a result.
Kakao’s new service will be available only during weekday commuting hours between 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. It will not operate on weekends or public holidays.
You can read more at the link, but judging by the above picture the Kakao Mobility CEO Jung Joo-hwan does not look happy about this agreement. I fully expect this fight between Kakao and the taxi driver union will come up again in the future.
Oh, by the way since I brought up the DVD industry, there is now only one Blockbuster left on Earth.
They should have also included between midnight and 5 a.m., and anytime it’s raining, since getting a taxi is a bitch at those times.
I guess the days of haggling with a cabbie are over. Perhaps because I was in the Western Corridor things worked a bit differently. I’m certain the black market keeps the AAFES cabs in business.
Commie Moon has his tenticles in this.
Unions have always been a tool of socialists. Their words, not mine. https://solidarity-us.org/atc/174/p4336/
I’ve lost four jobs to unions that I know about, including my first one, following a Korean man from our church as he operated a backhoe with a spade straightening out the edges of the ditch. Several other older teens and I worked 9 hours at minimum wage, and the next day there were two guys and a card table and the property owner said the unions complained, so he had to cancel building his own house on his own property because no truck drivers would deliver supplies or concrete, the electricians and plumbers wouldn’t come, and so on. That lot sat vacant for fifteen years, until he sold it.
So I see them the same way I see everyone else who wants a jack-booted thug telling us who we can hire, what we will build or service we will provide, when to stop clapping, where we will live, and how we will think…
Like a sarcoma, unions can be “treated” to shrink them; but ultimately, they need to be cut out in order to save the patient. The vile thinking that awards “participation” trophies is the same wretched mess that destroys economic miracles and opens a country to disasters like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and North Korea have seen–and many countries are going to see sooner than later…
Gulags aren’t an accident. They’re part of the plan.
Government meddling in markets always makes thing worse
Flyingsword, that is absolutely correct!