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 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Tourism Organization (KTO)(http://www.visitkorea.or.kr/) is currently holding an event to celebrate the launch of its official Korean travel mobile app ‘Visit Korea’. Continuing until December 14, 2014, an iPad Air will be given away every week to a lucky winner who participated in the event. So make sure [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – GameVil on November 3 announced that it released its latest MORPG “Titan Warrior” on Google Play. Optimized for smartphones, Titan Warrior is a 3D action MORPG with real time network battle where up to four users can form a party and play game together. Its action based on the hack-n-slash [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Communications acquired smartphone app SeoulBus as a stepping stone to expand its business into local online to offline (O2O) market and reinforce its mobile advertisement business. Daum, the second largest Internet portal in Korea to be merged with Kakao Inc. next month, announced on September 16 that it took [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Gamevil, a leading game publisher in Korea, is spurring to be a global one, as its mobile games are selected in the top ranking games in the game charts across the world. According to the game firm, its fishing game “Fishing Superstars” is gaining popularity in Southeast Asia and [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Beginning in July next year, the government will impose 10-percent value-added taxes on smartphone applications sold on overseas open markets such as Google Play and Apple App Store. According to a plan announced by the Ministry of Strategy & Finance on August 6, it would assess taxes on apps sold on foreign [...]
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, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) - A recent study shows that the two global giants, Google and Apple, are devouring Korea’s mobile content market while domestic proprietary contents are losing their grounds. According to the Korea Mobile Internet Business Association, the size of last year’s mobile content market was 2,433.5 billion won, in which Google [...]
SEOUL, Korea, May 1, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – To prevent unintentional mobile application payments, various institutional strategies will be provided such as obligated password input and exposure of payment information notice while using the app markets. The Korea Communications Commission announced the regulatory plans on April 29 to reinforce safety measures of the mobile app [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Domestic mobile application businesses started to buckle down and knock on the door of the American market. The companies which used to focus on pushing into Southeast Asian markets have changed their course and are steering their way to the United States. According to industry sources, IT [...]