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. [...]
![[Stats] Mobile Banking Subscribers](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/모바일뱅킹등록고객수-영문.png "[Stats] Mobile Banking Subscribers")
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![[Stats] Number of Consumer Complaints Related to Mobile Games](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/모바일게임소비상담-영문-800x371.png "[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)
![[Stats] Market Shares of Big 3 Mobile Carriers](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/이통사점유율-영문.jpg "[Stats] Market Shares of Big 3 Mobile Carriers")
[Related Article] Will KT Operating Alone Change the Market Dynamics? (Korea Bizwire, April 29) As mobile telecommunications market as the company is the last runner for aseries of suspensions ordered by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning, a big change is expected in the market dynamics.… (see the full text of this news) [...]
![[Stats] Consumer Claims on Cleaning Robot](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/로봇청소기-소비자현황.jpg "[Stats] Consumer Claims on Cleaning Robot")
[Related Article] 50% of Robotic Cleaner Users Are Unsatisfied (Korea Bizwire, April 24) A consumer who purchased an automated vacuum cleaner in July last year, asked for a refund after catching the robotic cleaner stuck in one corner of the house unable to roam around and clean the entire floor as it was supposed to do. [...]
![[Kobiz Stats] Have you ever worried about a possible privacy leakage through SNS?](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/SNS사생활침해-영문-1.jpg "[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 [...]