SEOUL, Nov. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has one of the best fifth-generation (5G) communications network infrastructures among the member states of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), a report showed Wednesday. The country had the highest number of 5G base stations relative to its population, with 593 stations per 100,000 inhabitants, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – The rate of online searches via Naver Corp., South Korea’s leading internet portal operator, in the country has seen a significant drop over the past nine years amid growing competition, an industry report showed Monday. The Korean portal giant took up a 57.32 percent share of the domestic search [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – As deepfake-related crimes capture headlines and artificial intelligence continues its rapid incursion into daily life, the call for robust AI ethics education is growing louder. Yet, in the corporate world, the actual adoption of AI technology remains surprisingly modest. A recent survey by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – In a market long dominated by homegrown players, South Korea’s internet search landscape is showing signs of a significant shift. Global tech giants Google and Microsoft’s Bing are steadily gaining market share, while local stalwarts Naver and Kakao’s Daum are seeing their once-ironclad grip on the market loosen. According to [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of registered drones in South Korea has increased ninefold over the past five years, reflecting their growing popularity for various applications including package delivery, search operations, and video filming. According to data released on June 30 by the Korea Transportation Safety Authority, there were 59,871 registered drones in [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – As the growth of budget mobile carriers persists in South Korea, SK Telecom, the nation’s largest mobile operator, has continued to lose overall market share. However, a new report shows the company still commands a significant portion of 5G subscriptions. According to a report evaluating the competitiveness of South Korea’s [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – While South Korea demonstrates robust human capital for artificial intelligence (AI) development, the country failed to produce any foundational AI models last year and is experiencing an outflow of talent to other nations, according to a new report from Stanford University’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI). The “AI Index 2024″ [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean metaverse users, which plunged after the lifting of social distancing rules earlier this year, started increasing again in late July. According to Mobile Index, the big data analysis unit of local data tracker IGAworks, the number of domestic weekly active users (WAU) for the [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – With new breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, self-driving cars, and other next generation technologies seemingly unveiled every other day, the potential impact of these innovations has drawn a line between optimists and pessimists, with the latter found to outnumber the former by a considerable margin, at least in South Korea. [...]
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[Related Article] Number of Smartphone Banking Users Exceeds 40 Million in Korea (Korea Bizwire, May 16) The number of people using smartphone banking service has exceeded 40 million for the first time ever in Korea. On May 15, according to a report “Domestic Banking Services in the First Quarter of 2014” by the Bank of Korea, the total [...]