Lotte Global Logistics partners with self-storage platform Darak on pickup service

Lotte Global Logistics announced Thursday that it has teamed up with self-storage platform Minicreango Darak to launch a doorstep pickup service that lets customers access logistics services directly through the Darak platform.

The service is designed to spare self-storage users the hassle of hauling their belongings to a Darak facility on their own. It represents a new collaboration model that links a professional courier directly to a self-storage platform, allowing customers to request pickup through the Darak app without going through a separate courier registration process.

Customers who want a pickup simply submit a request through the Darak app, and Lotte Global Logistics dispatches a courier to the designated location to collect the items and transport them to the nearest Darak storage facility. Once the items arrive, Darak handles inspection, internal movement, secure storage and inventory management through its own specialized systems.

Customers can now complete the entire process — from booking and pickup to storage — without physically transporting their parcels themselves. The integration of Darak's storage service and Lotte Global Logistics' delivery network within a single platform further streamlines the experience.

Darak operates about 130,000 registered members and 250 locations nationwide. The platform offers personal storage spaces in urban areas, giving individuals a secure place to keep their belongings outside their homes.

A Lotte Global Logistics official said the company plans to combine Darak's customer touchpoints with its own nationwide logistics capabilities to expand a business model that brings delivery services into everyday lifestyle platforms — going beyond conventional courier channels — and to actively develop new sources of logistics demand.

The official added that the company will also broaden partnerships with other self-storage operators and integrate its logistics services into a wider range of platforms closely tied to customers' daily lives, securing new customer touchpoints and continuing to expand its platform-based "everyday lifestyle logistics" model.

Meanwhile, Lotte Global Logistics said this month it has been selected for a government-funded project under the 2026 Robot Industry Technology Development Program, overseen by the Korea Evaluation Institute of Industrial Technology (KEIT) under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy. The project aims to develop a domestically built physical AI model to reduce reliance on foreign robots and AI models, with plans to establish technological self-sufficiency through the development of homegrown physical AI-based humanoid robot technology tailored to logistics environments.