COLOGNE, GERMANY, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Media giants on the Rhine: The top companies from the world of national and international media agencies will be meeting at dmexco 2014. Once again, the event will be attended by all of the important media agency networks of the global digital economy. Together with their suppliers of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – While Kakao is scheduled to offer an online credit card payment service next month, it is considering an “Uber-like” call taxi service as well. From September, Kakao, the operator of Korea’s largest mobile messenger service, will begin providing credit card online payment service in partnership with nine card companies including [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Night tour to Gyeongbok Palace which offers splendid night view of the major Joseon Dynasty palace enjoys huge popularity among local Koreans. Reflecting its popularity, all the tickets allocated for Internet reservations were sold out in an hour. According to Auction which managed the Internet ticketing of the night tour [...]
COLOGNE, GERMANY, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – All of the leading thinkers, the most important brands, the relevant trends and issues — the dmexco Conference 2014 will bring together the digital stars from all over the world for a summit meeting in Cologne. On the newly designed and expanded stages of the dmexco 2014 Conference [...]
SEOUL, July 23 (Korea Bizwire) –The sense of urgency that IT companies are encroaching on the mobile payment market is making banks to competitively beef up their smartphone-based electronic commerce services and scramble into the “war of mobile wallet.” Mobile Wallet or E-Wallet is a service that provides a convenient and technologically quick method [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan government is considering a ban on smartphone app-based private driver service “Uber” for fear of passenger safety and leakage of financial information of the users of the app. On July 21, the city government responded sternly against the illegal call taxi operating app Uber and urged its [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Alipay, the e-payment arm of China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba, wants to make inroads in South Korean market — a move to create a seismic change across South Korea’s online payment service industry, according to local sources and reports. China’s leading e-payment brand held a seminar on July 18 to [...]
SEOUL, July 16 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey revealed that more than 80 percent of global online e-commerce vendors have plans for expansion in Asia for the next 12 months but most respondents (99%) said they face obstacles in gaining a firm foothold in the Chinese market. According to a report “Breaking into the e-Commerce Market [...]
COLOGNE, GERMANY, Jul. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s starting: Trade visitors from all over the world can now register for dmexco 2014. Decision-makers from the global marketing, technology, creative and media sectors can simply get their free tickets online at https://service.dmexco.de/Visitorregistration. And they can find out which exhibitors will await the visitors in Cologne on [...]
SEOUL, July 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As Kakao Inc. decided to jump to the fray in the local mobile coupon business, the online coupon companies which sell the digital coupons on the popular Kakao platform, are fretting over the mobile messenger giant’s possible unfair competition in the market, even considering a lawsuit against Kakao for breaching [...]