SEOUL, April 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Son Heung-min has seen his Instagram followers break the 6 million milestone. The South Korean star for Tottenham Hotspur uploaded a post on his Instagram account on Thursday celebrating 6 million followers. “I am truly happy to be able to share what I think is invaluable with so many [...]
STOCKHOLM and ATLANTA, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Sinch AB (publ), a global leader in cloud communications for mobile customer engagement, today launched a worldwide API for business messaging through Instagram to coincide with the availability of the Messenger API for Instagram announced by Messenger from Facebook during its F8 conference. The Messenger API for Instagram enables [...]
SEOUL, March 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A growing number of South Korean consumers are gaining shopping information through the social media platform Instagram. Local pollster Open Survey recently conducted a survey of 1,000 local consumers. Among 675 consumers who had used Instagram within the past month, 33 percent followed the accounts of influencers, up 8.8 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Global photo and video-sharing platform Instagram on Tuesday introduced various new safety features in its latest effort to fight online bullying and other kinds of online harassment. The new features come as the social media platform has been criticized for becoming the center of various bullying acts, especially among [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will ban social media influencers from pitching a new product or service on their online platforms without disclosing their business ties with corporate sponsors, officials said Wednesday. The move comes amid controversy over some famous social media influencers’ involvement in the shady practice called “backdoor online advertising.” [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The use of photo-sharing social media sites and camera apps has decreased with much of the general public making an effort to stay home due to the coronavirus outbreak. According to a survey conducted by mobile big data platform IGAWorks, there were 6.46 million Instagram users in the first [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Several major cosmetics companies were found guilty for misinforming consumers after paying influencers on social networks like Instagram to promote their products. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) ordered seven companies including AmorePacific Corp., LG Household and Health Care Ltd, and L’Oreal Korea to pay 269 million won (US$228,740) in [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A “Convenience Store-gram” account, a newly coined phrase combining convenience store and Instagram, appeared on social media recently. It is an account where consumers post reviews and photos of convenience store products. On top of this, the account has had a huge ripple effect on social media with a [...]
SEJONG, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Monday that it is strengthening measures to cope with possible tax evasion by influencers and YouTube content creators. South Korea has been collecting tax information on influencers and YouTubers through various tax records and financial data on transactions provided by the Financial Intelligence Unit, an affiliate [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The combined time spent on the photo and video-sharing platform Instagram by South Korean Android users surged by 73 percent on-year in May, industry data showed Tuesday. They spent a total of 26 billion minutes using Instagram last month, compared with 15 billion minutes during the same period a [...]