South Korean discount retailer Asung Daiso, which operates more than 1,000 stores across the country and around 100 in China, is building a new flagship distribution center in Yangju, some 30 kilometers north of Seoul. The platform, scheduled to go live in the second half of 2028, will rise 45 meters high across four floors and offer a combined 165,000 sqm of storage area to handle both store replenishment and online orders.
Doosan Wins the Automation Build
The automation contract has been awarded to Korean integrator Doosan Logistics Solutions, a subsidiary of the Doosan group currently in the process of being acquired by robotics specialist Clobot. Austrian provider Knapp will sit at the heart of the system: its Evo Shuttle 1D shuttle storage solution will be deployed across 20 aisles with close to 500 shuttles, delivering capacity for some 140,000 storage locations.
A Million Items Per Day
Orchestrated by Knapp’s KiSoft software, the platform is engineered to replenish more than 1,000 stores and process up to 50,000 e-commerce orders a day, for a combined throughput exceeding one million items shipped daily. By 2030, the new site is expected to handle around 37% of Asung Daiso’s total order volume.
Knapp’s Largest Korean Footprint
Knapp describes the deployment as its largest shuttle installation ever rolled out in South Korea. The award reflects the rapid scale-up of automated warehousing in Asia-Pacific retail, where high-throughput omni-channel networks increasingly demand shuttle and goods-to-person platforms capable of handling both bulk replenishment and granular e-commerce picking under one roof.
