SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has launched an antitrust investigation into Google over its plans to enforce commission fees for in-app purchases made through its mobile application store, a top official said Thursday. The U.S. tech giant has come under intense scrutiny from South Korean regulators after it updated its global policy [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are estimated to have spent nearly 30 hours on YouTube in September, a report showed Thursday, far surpassing other popular social media apps. South Korean users spent an average of 29.5 hours on Google’s video-sharing app last month, compared with 12 hours on KakaoTalk, the country’s top [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s mobile subscriptions topped 70 million in August thanks to a pickup in 5G users, data showed Monday. As of August, the country had 70 million mobile accounts, up 201,119 from the previous month, according to data from the ICT ministry. South Korea has a population of 51.8 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday the budget model of its Galaxy S20 smartphone will go on sale in South Korea next week as the tech giant aims to boost its handset sales amid the pandemic. The Galaxy S20 Fan Edition (FE) will hit local shelves on Oct. 16 with [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s latest flagship smartphone, the Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, topped the list of handsets with the best-performing cameras available in the market, a report showed Sunday. The Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, a high-end version of Samsung’s phablet series, posted the highest marks among the latest smartphones, according [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — LG Electronics Inc. said Sunday its new dual-screen smartphone will go on sale in South Korea this week as the tech firm aims to boost its handset sales amid the pandemic. The Wing will hit local shelves on Tuesday, with a price tag of 1,098,900 won (US$940), according to [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite about two years having passed since South Korea’s top three mobile carriers launched 5G networks, there are still a number of metropolitan cities and provinces that don’t have any 5G indoor base stations at all. According to data that the Ministry of Science and ICT presented to Rep. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean mobile carriers are tipped to post improved earnings in the third quarter this year on the back of increased 5G subscribers, analysts said Friday. The combined operating profits of the country’s three major telecom operators — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — are [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. was the world’s top smartphone vendor in August, a report showed Tuesday, as it widens the gap with China’s Huawei Technologies Co. amid the pandemic. The South Korean tech giant accounted for a 22 percent share of the global smartphone market last month, beating Huawei with [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc. faced strong backlash from South Korean developers after it announced Monday (U.S. time) it will enforce its app market’s billing system, which charges a 30 percent fee to all app developers. While Google has taken a 30 percent cut for all in-app purchases on the Play store [...]