SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – A major Japanese internet company partly owned by Naver, South Korea’s biggest web portal, is facing pressure from Tokyo to strip the Korean tech firm of its controlling stake after a data breach last year, an extraordinarily aggressive move that threatens to upend a rare alliance between corporate giants from [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Mobility Corp., the operator of South Korea’s leading taxi-hailing service Kakao T, said Thursday it will introduce a new membership category with cheaper commissions for its taxi drivers. Starting from June, the new plan will require 2.8 percent commission from its drivers, compared with the current membership plan, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics, the world’s leading smartphone maker, has relaunched its Galaxy C series of smartphones tailored for the Chinese market after a seven-year hiatus, in a bid to reclaim market share from domestic rivals. According to the market research firm Counterpoint Research, Samsung is estimated to have recorded a market [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s online gaming giant Nexon Co. said Monday it will release a mobile version of its smash-hit title, Dungeon & Fighter, in China next month. Dungeon & Fighter Mobile will hit the Chinese market on May 21 and be operated by local game publisher Tencent Games, according to [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics announced on April 16 that its flagship Galaxy S24 smartphone series incorporates an amount of recycled plastic equivalent to approximately 50 million 500-milliliter plastic water bottles. In a post from its official newsroom, the company estimated that the recycled plastic used in the Galaxy S24 series this year [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – As the new Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) season kicks off, baseball enthusiasts are flocking to interest-based chat services operated by Naver and Kakao, South Korea’s leading internet companies. According to industry sources, Naver’s open chat service, Open Talk (Naver Talk), now features dedicated chat rooms for each of the KBO’s [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Major smartphone manufacturers are taking steps to grant consumers greater “right to repair” their devices amidst growing demands. On April 11, Apple announced that certain iPhone models can now be repaired using recycled components. Previously, iPhone users had to undergo “part pairing” when self-repairing their devices, only allowing parts that [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – The district of Jung-gu in Incheon has launched a mobile application aimed at preventing isolated deaths among its growing population of single-person households, officials announced on Tuesday. The “Safe eJung-gu” app is designed to automatically send emergency text message alerts to pre-registered guardians if the user, deemed at high risk [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — KakaoTalk, South Korea’s leading mobile messenger, saw its number of users fall below 45 million for the first time in 22 months last month, data showed Tuesday. The application had 44.97 million monthly active users (MAUs) in March, down more than 221,000 from the previous month, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans can now receive over 1,000 types of national professional certifications and training credentials in the form of blockchain-based “digital badges,” the Human Resources Development Service of Korea announced on April 8. Through the newly revamped mobile Q-Net electronic wallet service, anyone can obtain, store and submit these certifications [...]