There are many people who pay attention to reviews when ordering food from delivery apps.
It turns out that there are countless cases of shopkeepers getting paid to write false reviews.
The Woowa Brothers, who run the delivery app, Baedal Minjok, said they discovered and blocked 114,000 false reviews on the Baemin app last year.
These are reviews written falsely after being rewarded by the owner without even ordering food to eat.
Due to the nature of delivery apps, reviews have a lot of influence when users place an order, so it is easy for business owners to fall into the temptation of such false reviews.
Recently, there are even companies that specialize in writing false reviews.
In response, delivery apps are cracking down on false reviews using real-time monitoring systems and artificial intelligence technologies.
Legal penalties for false reviews are also intensifying.
Previously, in May of last year, Mr. A was sentenced to prison for writing false reviews a total of 350 times at the request of multiple business owners.