SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. is estimated to have recorded sales of nearly 5 trillion won (US$4.6 billion) in South Korea last year, a South Korean professor said Thursday. “Google is estimated to have earned around 4.9 trillion won sales in South Korea last year,” said Lee Tae-hee, a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has said it is working with U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. to offer improved messaging experiences that would allow users to have group chats and video calls and transfer large files without the need for additional apps. The collaboration will ensure that [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea will mandate that foreign IT companies designate an official in charge of managing personal information, sources said Friday. According to the industry sources, a relevant law was passed through a regular session of the National Assembly a day earlier that makes it mandatory for companies without addresses [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (VANK), a non-governmental organization, revealed yesterday that a quick type in the search engine Google (www.google.com) of the keywords “Dokdo,” “Liancourt Rocks,” and “Takeshima” will bring about search results pinned to the geographical location of the East Sea (Sea of Japan) and will [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea is not the best place for asylum seekers, with only about four out of every 100 applicants having won refugee status so far since 1994, and it lags far behind many European countries in terms of medical, job, and other social benefits offered to such migrants fleeing [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. said Thursday it has added South Korea to its online platform for museums and galleries in a move that could increase public access to 30,000 South Korean cultural assets. Google Arts & Culture’s “Korean Heritage Project” includes 2,500 artifacts from ancient Korean kingdoms and [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Six South Korean startups from Campus Seoul, the first Asian campus set up by U.S. Internet giant Google Inc., have attracted investment worth 2.8 billion won (US$2.5 million) during the first half of this year, the company said Wednesday. The campus, which opened in May 2015 in the posh [...]
VIENNA, Austria, Jun. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Paysafe, a leading global payments provider, announces a new partnership with Google. Paysafe’s prepaid business paysafecard is now being accepted as a payment method in the Google Play Store, the app store for Android-certified devices, opening the door to the digital era for millions of customers. From now [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube has emerged as the most popular social networking service (SNS) in South Korea with nearly three in 10 SNS users relying on the platform, a poll showed Friday. According to the January survey of 200 South Koreans aged 20 or older, 27.6 percent of respondents picked YouTube as [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. tech giant Google Inc. came under fire Monday Monday for describing a victim of Japan’s sexual slavery during World War II as a “prostitute” in its Korean-based search engine, which the firm claims was caused by an “error” in its algorithm. Earlier Monday, Google’s search engine described the late Moon Ok-ju, an activist and [...]