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 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Lezhin Entertainment Inc., which operates a major online comic platform, said Monday its service topped the list of best grossing applications on the U.S. Google Play market. Seoul-based Lezhin said the performance is significant as it outpaced traditional comic giants, such as Marvel Comics and DC Comics. Lezhin Comics, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Google’s Indie Games Festival will be back for the third time later this year. The tech giant said on Thursday it will open the annual festival to support indie game developers and gamers in April. The festival consists of a number of events including an offline exhibition where independent game [...]
SEOUL, July 29 (Korea Bizwire) – The Google Play Arcade finally opened at Dongdaemun Design Plaza Friday, with an 8,900m2 space offering visitors access to around 30 top-ranking mobiles games, such as Despicable Me: Minion Rush, Infinite Stairs, and Stone Age. The month-long exhibition was arranged to provide a different approach to conventional mobile games, [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Tired of playing your favorite games on a tiny 5-inch screen? Google Korea announced on July 12 that it will temporarily operate a Google Play Arcade at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) in Seoul from July 29 to August 24. Game lovers will be able to enjoy playing thirty popular mobile games [...]
SEOUL, Nov.19 (Korea Bizwire) – LG Electronics and Google have joined forces to launch a Smart TV content application. Cooperation between the two companies seems to on solid footing after joint marketing efforts for LG’s new OLED TVs. LG Electronics announced on November 18 that it is bringing a new content application, Google Play Movies [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger, KakaoTalk, rolled out Tuesday its cab-booking mobile application for smartphone users, extending the service to a full lineup after it launched a similar platform for taxi drivers early this year. KakaoTaxi, available for downloading at Google Play for Android users, [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics has installed 68 floor tiles that generate electricity when they’re walked on at Sandton City, a shopping center located in Sandton, Johannesburg. The power generated by the tiles from March 7 to 19 was 180kW, which corresponds to the amount of electricity needed to power a typical Korean [...]
“According to Google, 80 percent of Koreans use smartphones, the second highest distribution rate following Singapore. Koreans spend an average of 13.4 hours per week on mobile apps, which is longer than the 9 hours they spend watching TV. They even spend twice as much time on mobile apps than Americans, who spend 6.3 hours [...]
Seoul, Korea, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – SK Telecom (NYSE:SKM) today announced the launch of Air Cube, a portable air monitoring device that measures air quality anywhere, anytime, and suggests appropriate actions at emergencies via a designated application on user’s smartphone. Designed to enhance people’s health and well-being, Air Cube monitors the air quality of [...]