SEOUL, Apr. 6 (Korea Bizwire) –With a new law mandating transparency on loot box odds in video games taking effect, multiple South Korean game companies have acknowledged errors in how they previously disclosed the probabilities of receiving rare in-game items, raising concerns among gamers about potential manipulation. In recent days, major publishers including Gravity for [...]
BANGKOK, Thailand and SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Taboola®, the world’s leading discovery platform, today announced an exclusive, media partnership with Purplefriends, a full-service marketing agency based in the Republic of Korea, and a member of Yello Digital Marketing (YDM), one of Asia’s leading digital marketing groups. The collaboration will expand on [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — SGN, the fastest growing major U.S. mobile games studio, announced today an investment of $130 million from Netmarble Games, the number one mobile games publisher in South Korea. With this investment, Netmarble will become the largest shareholder in SGN. In this strategic partnership, SGN looks to grow their [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Netmarble Games today announced the release of the first major update for its blockbuster mobile action RPG game, MARVEL Future Fight, featuring characters from the Guardians of the Galaxy. The update will see the introduction of new heroes and villains, a new mission stage as well as [...]
Seoul, Korea, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced the launch of ‘T Phone 2.0,’ an upgraded version of ‘T Phone,’ an integrated dialer platform the company released in January 2014. T Phone 2.0 took phone call service to the next level by opening up its call-related APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Marvel Future Fight, the blockbuster Mobile Action RPG from leading gaming company Netmarble Games has officially hit the Top 10 ‘Top Free’ Apps, surpassing 10 million downloads across 118 countries in two weeks. With rave customer reviews in the App StoreSM and Google Play™ Store, the game [...]
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Mar. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Today Hyundai owners no longer need to fish out a phone from a pocket or purse to remote start, lock or unlock their car using Blue Link™. They also won’t need to look down at a phone to find their car in a crowded parking lot if [...]
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — LINE, the world’s leading mobile platform, and The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) signed a global partnership agreement on February 13, 2015. Jong Nam Oh, Executive Director of The Korean Committee for UNICEF and Jung-ho Shin, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LINE Plus Corporation and Chief Globalization Officer [...]
SEOUL, Korea and SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Good Technology™, the leader in secure mobility, today announced the immediate availability of Good for Samsung KNOX, merging Good’s market-leading app container and broad app ecosystem with the Samsung KNOX enterprise security platform for Android®. The launch of Good for [...]
Seoul, Korea, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced that it signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nokia on January 21, 2015, to work together to lead the development and verification of the fifth-generation (5G) mobile network technologies. Under the MOU, the two companies will conduct joint researches to develop core [...]