SEOUL, Nov. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean gaming developers and publishers have been unveiling their latest titles featuring cutting-edge graphics and technology at an ongoing game expo. This year’s G-Star Global Game Exhibition is not operating offline booths due to concerns over the COVID-19 outbreak, and fans must participate in the Thursday-Sunday event through [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Switch, a video game console developed by Japan’s Nintendo, is enjoying explosive growth in sales in South Korea due to the rapid increase in the number of users since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. According to IR data released by Daewon Media Co., a South Korean distributor of [...]
According to a survey in South Korea in 2019, KakaoPay was the most popular mobile payment service among Millennials and Generation Zs (aged 19 to 34) in South Korea. (image: KakaoPay Corp.) SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of people using financial mobile apps, including for banking and stock trading, has surpassed users [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Female characters with revealing costumes and muscular men are what we commonly see in mobile game commercials. Recently, however, female characters are increasingly being replaced with handsome, feminine male characters resembling those from romance cartoons as the game industry is expanding to attract female players. NHN Entertainment Corp., a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Experts are raising concerns as South Korean game developers continue to stick with massive multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPG). Google Play’s top sales in the first week of September showed that seven out of top ten games were MMORPGs. IGAWorks, a South Korean marketing solutions company, reported that MMORPG [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — With Apple Inc. introducing an adult certification procedure to its app store in South Korea, it seems that games for adults that had not been released until now are now being launched en masse. According to the gaming industry, so-called web board games such as go-stop and poker were [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Video games, which were previously considered the sole domain of children and teenagers, have recently become sensational among people in their 30s and 40s due to the influence of the “retro trend boom.” According to an analysis of customer data conducted by E-Mart Inc. for three years from 2017 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean Supreme Court ruled last November that a person can conscientiously object to military service if it is indeed based on true conscience. Now, conscientious objectors can be exempted from punishment for not serving in the military as long as they have ‘justifiable grounds’. However, controversy still [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — NCsoft, one of South Korea’s top game developers, is set to introduce a flexible working hours policy that has industry watchers hopeful a positive change is coming to the infamous working conditions — described as “murderous” — in the gaming industry. The company revealed on the first day of [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp. will launch a new service called ‘Kakao Game AD+’ next month that should increase the profitability of its game services partners, according to a report released on Thursday, June 15. Unlike existing free-to-play mobile games that contribute to most of a company’s profit in a mobile game service, [...]