S-commerce is starting to receive considerable attention from the business community, as individuals are making greater use of user-generated content to make informed buying decisions. In particular, s-commerce has witnessed explosive growth in South Korea (hereafter “Korea”), because consumers place great emphasis on acquiring and using coupons and sharing information on goods and services, with the later representing a manifestation of collectivism. Collectivism represents a sense of interdependence among members of a group and their prioritization of group goals [Pookulangara & Koesler 2011]. In general, collectivism embodies the manner in which individuals view themselves as members of a group and consider the needs of the group to be more important than their own individual needs. By contrast, individualism represents the prioritization of oneself at the expense of the group as a whole. Business environments have different cultural emphasis. For example, traditional e-commerce models (e.g. B2C, C2C) are characterized as individualistic in nature whereas s-commerce is collectivistic in nature [Bin et al. 2003]. Brandtzæg [2010] noted the importance of cultural differences in the context of s-commerce, claiming that such differences can influence the interaction between new social media technologies (e.g. s-commerce) and users