SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Koreans travel farther than newlyweds from any other countries for their honeymoons, according to data provided by Facebook. Facebook revealed the honeymoon trend of its users across the world based on its “check-in” information on September 26. According to the Facebook data, Korea ranked first among 71 countries for [...]
UTRECHT, The Netherlands, Sept. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – GreenPeak Technologies, the industry leading Smart Home semi-conductor/system company, today announces a family of new, ground-breaking sensor and cloud based intelligent systems for Family Lifestyle integrated with Social Media. The first release is a Senior Lifestyle System that empowers children and their elderly parents to privately and securely [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook has regulated access of Korean users to its game service, causing inconvenience to them. That is because the South Korean government has put a brake on its betting games Korean Facebook users have played. According to the Digital Times on August 27, the social networking company has blocked access of [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – “Snowball,” a mobile ad app that gives out reward points to anyone who makes recommendations to their friends, is gaining popularity from smartphone users. According to Google Play and Apple App Store on June 2, the number of downloads for Snowball on their services is rapidly on the rise. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A “Yellow Ribbon Campaign” is spreading out among Koreans who yearn for safe returns of the missing passengers who were on board of the capsized ferry “Sewol.” The campaign started with an online posting in a community forum site, which urged people to put up a picture [...]
![[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 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – 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 on its 2,205 members, 71.5 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone technology is now no longer limited to voice and text messaging. Since the introduction of the Apple iPhone in 2009, things have changed for good. For the past four years, there has been the so-called “Data Big Bang” in which people’s data traffic usage has risen in [...]
PAWTUCKET, R.I, Mar 26, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – When you play a game of MONOPOLY, do you collect a pile of cash when you land on Free Parking? Do you auction off properties that people don’t purchase immediately? How do you get out of Jail? While MONOPOLY fans may claim to know how to play [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 5 (Korea Bizwire) – It’s a little bit annoying to receive and check text messages or Facebook alerts while driving and it can often cause a tragic accident. For those who want to check the message without being disrupted, getting a smartphone application reading the message out loud is the way to [...]