SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KakaoStory, a photo-sharing service operated by Daum Kakao, was the most popular social networking service (SNS) in South Korea last year, a poll showed Tuesday, outpacing Facebook and other global platforms. According to the survey conducted by Hankook Research on 9,381 people aged between 13 and 69, 51.8 percent [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans keep tracks of their SNS channels for fun and information seeking, according to a paper written by Lee Jeong-kwon, a doctoral student at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Lee conducted a study concerning 248 individuals who were using opened SNS and closed, private SNS last year. When asked [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – It looks exactly like a prop from a sci-fi movie, but in reality, it’s nothing more than a custom-designed splint. Mark Lippert, the U.S. ambassador to Korea, recently posted a picture on Facebook of the device he’s using to help recuperate from injuries sustained to his left hand and [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency is set to establish an SNS scanning system to detect emergencies or traffic jams in the second half of the year, said agency officials on April 2. The agency will be developing a system that detects keywords such as accident, traffic and bumper-to-bumper on Twitter and Facebook and other [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – When you google the keywords ‘Internet’ and ‘to be famous’, you come across approximately 500 million search results related to the theme. It is impossible to type the phrase ‘to be famous,’ without seeing suggestions pop-up, like ‘how to be famous on Instagram,’ ‘how to be famous on Facebook,’ [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The ubiquity of mobile devices including smartphones has contributed to changes in the way Koreans make menu choices when they eat out, as more and more Koreans are searching for food information online. According to a recent survey on “eating out trends in 2014” jointly conducted by the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of SNS among the whole time spent on the 50 most used apps in Korea is 40.3 percent, according to an announcement from Ranky.com, a market research company, on January 16. The company analyzed app usage times for the 50 most used apps by 60,000 mobile device users [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s native online game “Blade & Soul” has embarked on a mission to conquer Taiwan. NCSoft, the developer of the massively multiplayer online role-playing game, announced on Nov. 26 that it had officially launched the game through its subsidiary NCSoft Taiwan. In the open version, contents up to 45th [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – KT, a telecommunications company in South Korea, announced on October 21 that it launched an Asia Pacific Gateway Network Operation Center to manage the world’s largest cross-border submarine cable network at KT Center in Busan. The Korea’s leading telecom company plans to work as a control tower when network [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – As Samsung Electronics deepens its relationship with Facebook, industry observers wonder what kind of output will come out of this tie-up. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, with 40 or so top managers of his company including COO Sheryl Sandberg, visited Korea on October 14 and spent two days with executives of [...]