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South Korea Lags in AI Model Development Despite Human Capital Strengths

South Korea Lags in AI Model Development Despite Human Capital Strengths

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″ [...]

Number of Metaverse Users Rebounds Slightly from July

Number of Metaverse Users Rebounds Slightly from July

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 [...]

Only 38 Percent of Online Posts Positive on Automated Convenience Stores

Only 38 Percent of Online Posts Positive on Automated Convenience Stores

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. [...]

[Stats] Number of Consumer Complaints Related to Mobile Games

[Stats] Number of Consumer Complaints Related to Mobile Games

[Related Article] PIN Becomes Essential for App Market Access (Korea Bizwire, May 1) To prevent unintentional mobile application payments, various institutional strategies will be provided such as obligated password input and exposure of payment information notice while using the app markets..… (see the full text of this news) Infographics Design Team (Infographic@kobizmedia.co.kr)

[Kobiz Stats] Have you ever worried about a possible privacy leakage through SNS?

[Kobiz Stats] Have you ever worried about a possible privacy leakage through SNS?

[Related Article]  Many Koreans Feel “SNS Infringes on Privacy” (Korea Bizwire, April 17) As personal information leakage takes place frequent recently, seven out of ten Koreans have expressed their concerns over privacy infringement from social network services such as Facebook and Twitter. According to Alba Heaven, Korea’s online part-time job portal, which conducted a survey [...]

[Kobiz Stats] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps

[Kobiz Stats] Visitors to Korean Top3 Delivery Service Apps

[Related Article]  War of Food Delivery Apps (Korea Bizwire, April 11) Striving for supremacy in the 10-trillion-won food delivery market, two start-ups came to gripes.The one leading the competition is Woowa Brothers, the service provider of Korea’s No. 1 mobile food delivery application, “Baedal Minjok (the People of Delivery).” The challenger is RGP Korea founded by [...]

[Kobiz Stats] Business Suspension among Top 3 Mobile Carriers

[Kobiz Stats] Business Suspension among Top 3 Mobile Carriers

[Related Article]  Mobile Phone Retailers Demanding Compensation of Damages (Korea Bizwire, April 10) Korean mobile phone retailers gathered up and performed a symbolic ceremony in which they broke an ice containing a cell phone figurine to protest against the Korea government’s ongoing business suspension on mobile service providers. (see the full text of this news) Infographics [...]