SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – As the new year unfolds, major financial groups in South Korea are fiercely competing to enhance their services through the development of sophisticated mobile applications, focusing on creating ‘super apps’ that offer core services of both banking and non-banking affiliates in a single application, each employing slightly different strategies to [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of users of mobile apps that take responsibility for household chores such as cleaning, laundry and various errands is on the rise, data showed Monday. According to industry tracker WiseApp, the number of people who installed lifestyle service apps increased from around 1.2 million in April 2020 [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The use of group buying, low-cost coffee, and convenience store apps is increasing as consumers tighten their belts amid the current economic slump and high inflation, data showed Tuesday. The number of app installations in the shopping app category increased in April compared to figures recorded in October last [...]
SEOUL, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of installations of service marketplace applications that enable users to find and offer various services has surged in recent years. According to the report released by industry tracker WiseApp, the number of service marketplace app installations stood at 1 million in January 2019 and has been on [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram saw the largest increase among South Korean users in their teens and 20s among all social media apps in the last 12 months, data showed Tuesday. Mobile app tracker Wiseapp conducted a survey of Android and iOS users over 10 years of age, [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The usage of gatherings, concerts and outdoor dining apps has jumped in the second half of this year with the lifting of social distancing rules, data showed Monday. NHN Data, a unit of leading South Korean information technology company NHN Corp., analyzed app usage trends among 28 million Android [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — More people are using apps for leisure activities such as movie-watching, outdoor dining and travel since the government scrapped most COVID-19 social distancing restrictions, data showed Tuesday. Local market analysis firm IGA Works analyzed some 2 billion data records from 40 million mobile devices between May 2020 and May [...]
SEOUL, March 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Railroad Corp. (KORAIL), a state-run railway operator, said Thursday it will share important information on subway train operations with KakaoMetro subway navigation app starting from Thursday. In case subway train operations are suspended due to accidents or natural disasters, KORAIL will provide emergency notice on the affected [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of self-employed people who lag behind in information capability compared to large businesses are adopting startup application services designed to help the operation of restaurants and stores. Dodo Cart, a restaurant inventory management app operated by local startup Spoqa, provides an analytical report on the details [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — In the midst of an increase in the number of apps that enable artificial intelligence (AI) speakers to be operated by smartphones, SK Telecom Co.’s NUGU secured the largest number of users among such apps, data showed Monday. Market researcher Nielsen Koreanclick analyzed Android OS-based AI speaker app users [...]