SEOUL, Dec.15 (Korea Bizwire) – Google has forcibly applied its ‘Safe Search’ pornography blocking program to Korean language sites. According to Google Korea, Google applied the ‘Safe Search’ feature to searches conducted through the Google Korea (https://www.google.co.kr/) portal. Safe Search is a program that automatically excludes inappropriate content such as pornography from search results. The [...]
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, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook, Twitter and Google will now have to examine illegal content that has been flagged by the Korea Communication Standards Commission (KCSC). The three American services, which are also widely used among Koreans, only delete content when a report is submitted from a user. However, from now on, content [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Alphabet Inc., the holding company of Google Inc., said Friday that flexible regulations will help South Korea amid the protracted economic slowdown. “I know that your country is seeing an economic slowdown. My recommendation would be to adopt more flexible regulations to unleash the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – To celebrate Dokdo Day on October 25, numerous flashmobs were held in Silicon Valley, California, calling for Dokdo to be officially recognized as Korean territory. Local Korean residents’ organizations including the Association of Korean residents in Silicon Valley (svkorean.org) held a flashmob celebrating Dokdo Day in front of the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwie) — Google Inc. was ordered by a Seoul court Friday to disclose the list of personal information it has shared with third parties, including a U.S. intelligence agency. Six South Korean activists filed a lawsuit against the global tech giant in July 2014, demanding to know whether it shared their [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Google Inc. introduced Tuesday the two latest smartphones in South Korea with improved camera and fingerprint functions, seeking to expand its Android ecosystem. The Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P, each manufactured by South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co. of China, were showcased at a media event [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s No. 2 handset maker LG Electronics said Tuesday it will unveil a new smartphone with improved video and camera features next month amid weak sales of its flagship smartphone G lineup. Market rumor had it that LG might roll out a new Nexus smartphone made together with Google, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Microsoft turns out to exert overwhelming influence in the PC browsing and OS(Operating System) market in Korea. According to a research, Microsoft was far ahead in the domestic PC web browser market, while Google and Apple secured their place in the mobile operating system (OS) market. The research titled “Internet [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Cases of Korean applications becoming popular in Central and South America without any marketing or advertising are increasing. This is a meaningful outcome considering that the Central and South American market is receiving attention as a new mobile application market that holds great potential for growth. According to industry [...]