SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom presented on May 3 a mobile phone application that many are criticizing as an invasion of privacy and a way for parents to keep their children under constant surveillance and parental influence. The application called “Cookiz”, which comes with a wearable device, allows real-time monitoring of location [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s big three mobile carriers on Monday divided up four new bandwidths via a government auction that ended earlier than expected. It will allow SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. to upgrade their services amid surging data traffic in the tech-savvy nation where most of [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of altteul (meaning thrifty in Korean) phone users has increased fourfold in the past year, owed to aggressive marketing campaigns and expanded rate plan options. Korea Post (KP) revealed on April 28 that it totaled 197,733 subscribers in Q1, a 404 percent increase from 39,201 in Q1 [...]
SEOUL, April 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The government has approved bids by all three major mobile operators here to secure new bandwidths for faster and broader data services, according to a ministry in charge of the issue Monday. The big-three firms — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — are in a [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) – KakaoTalk, the leading South Korean messenger application, will launcha new mobile money transfer service by the end of the month. Kakao, the operator of the app, previously launched a remittance service that required the use of additional applications. However, the new service will be added directly to the messenger [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) — For smartphone users, one of the most onerous burdens is the fees charged for data use. When consumers select their rate plans, the first thing they tend to look into is how much data is available with various plans at different price points. In this regard, the South Korean [...]
SEOUL, April 18 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s smartphone makers are rushing to introduce new budget phones as part of efforts to secure a meaningful share of the world’s most important smartphone markets, with competition becoming increasingly heated. On April 17, industry sources revealed that Samsung will release the Galaxy C, a new variant of [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top three mobile carriers will team up with Naver, the country’s leading Internet service provider, to launch a unified app store, company officials said Thursday. SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. already have a combined app retail channel: One Store. A subsidiary of SK Telecom, which [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In a rare joint publicity stunt, South Korea’s two smaller mobile carriers placed an ad in 29 major newspapers late last month to denounce industry leader SK Telecom Co.‘s push to buy the country’s top cable TV operator. “We request that SK Telecom give up on a harmful acquisition [...]
SEOUL, April 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Prosecutors said Friday they have indicted South Korea’s three mobile carriers on charges of violating a law strictly banning excessive discounts or subsidies to customers. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office said the carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. – are accused of paying subsidies far over [...]