SEOUL, Apr. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Google, which previously identified Sohn Kee-chung, a gold medalist in the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, as ‘Kitei Son,’ his name under the Japanese occupation of Korea, has finally corrected it to the Korean name, according to the Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK) on Wednesday. If you [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean job seekers picked Google Korea as the most sought-after multinational company to work for, followed by Starbucks Coffee Korea Co. According to Saramin, a South Korean online job search platform, 27 percent of 1,194 job seekers chose Google Korea as their most preferred employer. Starbucks Coffee Korea [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc. announced on Wednesday that it will help expand the ‘Digital and Media Literacy Education Program’ nationwide to educate the public on the standard of making proper judgement on digital media and how to use a variety of digital media tools. Jacquelline Fuller, president of Google.org, the charitable [...]
SEJONG, Mar. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc. said Thursday that it has decided to voluntarily correct many of its terms of service after South Korea’s antitrust regulator made the world’s first corrective recommendation against the U.S. Internet giant. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said Google should inform its users individually of changes to its [...]
RICHARDSON, Texas, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Today, Fossil Group (NASDAQ:FOSL) announced its plan to sell to Google for $40 million intellectual property (IP) related to a smartwatch technology currently under development by Fossil Group. As part of the transaction, a portion of Fossil Group’s research and development (R&D) team currently supporting the transferring IP [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s tax agency launched an investigation into a local office of U.S. tech giant Google Inc. amid rumors of tax evasion by some YouTubers here, industry sources said Wednesday. Earlier in the day, the National Tax Service (NTS) sent auditors and investigators to the headquarters of Google Korea [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will now be able to impose value added tax on Google, Amazon, and other foreign IT companies. The National Assembly passed a bill to amend the Value Added Tax Act on Saturday, which will allow for the imposition of value added tax on profits raised from online [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphones are the ultimate medium nowadays that allow individuals to enjoy most of the content they consume online such as shopping, music, games and social media. The content is distributed through two main channels, Google Play and the App Store by Apple Inc. The former has come to dominate [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean users of Google Play’s application store spent a total of US$11.2 billion over the past 10 years, making Asia’s fourth-largest economy the third most lucrative market, a report showed Tuesday. Google Play, originally known as Android Market, has provided games, applications and other content from its Android [...]
SUWON, Sept. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — A court said Friday it has ordered the South Korean unit of Google Inc. to repay a mother half of the money her son spent on mobile game items using her credit card without her permission. In a suit filed by the mother, the Suwon District Court found the [...]