SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Naver has kicked off a month-long campaign aimed at foreign tourists, promoting trendy destinations across the country through its map platform as part of broader efforts to compete with global rivals like Google. The “Be Local” campaign, which began Monday, targets users who set the Naver [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — After a challenging year dominated by Chinese titles, South Korea’s game industry is showing signs of renewed momentum as a string of high-performing new releases finds success across both mobile and PC/console platforms. According to data from Mobile Index, Netmarble’s RF Online Next, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has unveiled a major update to its Galaxy S25 series, integrating real-time visual artificial intelligence powered by multimodal capabilities. The new feature allows users to interact with AI by showing, rather than telling — a leap forward in intuitive mobile assistance. According to an announcement from Samsung’s newsroom [...]
SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading mobile messenger app KakaoTalk experienced a temporary disruption Friday, just moments after the Constitutional Court announced its decision to uphold the impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk Yeol. A large number of users encountered delays in sending and receiving messages around 11:22 a.m. when the court [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Communications Commission announced on March 25 that it has partnered with Samsung Electronics and the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) to develop an artificial intelligence-based system for blocking malicious text messages, which will debut on the Galaxy S25 series. The new security feature will automatically filter [...]
SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) — As phone-based phishing scams grow increasingly sophisticated, South Koreans are turning in droves to “Citizen Conan,” an anti-phishing app operated by the National Police Agency. According to mobile analytics firm IGAWorks Mobile Index, the number of Citizen Conan users surged by 215.9% in February, reaching 1.39 million, compared to [...]
SEJONG, South Korea, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 22,000 cases of suspected deceptive advertising on social media were identified in South Korea last year, as authorities intensified efforts to regulate undisclosed sponsored content. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) released its 2024 Social Media Deceptive Advertising Monitoring Report on Sunday, revealing that 22,011 posts [...]
SEOUL, March 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics saw its smartphone market share shrink in key domestic and international markets during the fourth quarter of 2024, according to a new report from market research firm Counterpoint Research. In India, Samsung’s market share fell to 11%, dropping from third to fifth place compared to the same [...]
SEOUL, March 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile phone users consider data services to be worth more than twice the value of traditional voice calls and text messages combined, according to a comprehensive survey released on March 5. The study also revealed that most users find smartphone purchase costs more burdensome than monthly service fees. [...]
SEOUL, March 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung’s latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S25 Ultra, has been ranked as the best smartphone by consumer advocacy organizations in five major European countries, the company announced on Monday. According to Samsung, the Galaxy S25 Ultra secured the top spot in consumer evaluations conducted by Italy’s Altroconsumo, Spain’s OCU, [...]