SEOUL, Jan. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Among the many startups founded and operating in South Korea, TagHive, an education technology company launched in 2017, is distinguished for its founder and CEO Pankaj Agarwal. Pankaj was born in a small town in northern India and studied at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. He [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top messenger app operator Kakao Corp. said Tuesday it has introduced “memorial profiles” to KakaoTalk to keep deceased users in remembrance. Previously, KakaoTalk profiles of deceased people that were locked for not being accessed for more than a year or their phone being deregistered would be set [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Tuesday it will run dozens of Galaxy Experience Spaces around the world after a product release event early next month. The world’s largest smartphone maker is set to introduce new Galaxy S smartphones in San Francisco on Feb. 1 in the first in-person Unpacked event [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple Korea’s sales rose slightly to 7.3 trillion won (US$5.9 billion) last year, data showed Monday. The South Korean unit of U.S. tech giant Apple Inc. logged 7.3 trillion won in sales from Oct. 1, 2021, to Sept. 30, 2022, up from 7.1 trillion won the previous one-year period, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — New security standards will allow Apple Inc.’s iPhone and iPad devices to be used at state or public institutions, a South Korean spy agency said Wednesday. The National Intelligence Service (NIS) announced the security requirements for iOS and iPadOS devices used at state institutions via its official website. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday it will unveil new Galaxy S smartphones next month in the first in-person Unpacked event in three years after the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the biannual offline event. The world’s largest smartphone maker said it will hold a Galaxy Unpacked event in San Francisco on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The usage rate of food delivery apps developed by municipal governments to reduce the burden on small businesses remains low despite lower commission fees compared to private delivery apps, a report said Thursday. According to a survey of about 3,000 dining businesses conducted by the Korea Agro-Fisheries Trade Corp. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s most popular mobile messenger, KakaoTalk, said Thursday it will give cash compensation to all small business owners for damage caused by the massive service disruption stemming from a fire at its data center. The fire at a building that houses Kakao’s data [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Thursday it will strengthen legal and administrative regulations to rein in excessive concentration of power in the local platform market led by tech giants Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp. In a comprehensive plan by the Ministry of Science and ICT, the Fair Trade Commission [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant messaging app KakaoTalk, announced that it has added a new function enabling users to “sneak out” of team chat rooms without informing other team members. Team chat rooms are usually opened by team leaders who use a pay-based data backup service. [...]