SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – So-called ‘fat macaron’ is a newly coined word to indicate a new type of macaron. Instead of a thin layer of filling between the two shells, fat macarons are filled with heavy fillings. Fat macarons are becoming very popular on social networking services such as Instagram, where people post [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kang Daniel, a member of the now-disbanded popular K-pop boy band Wanna One, drew more than 1 million followers within little more than 11 hours of opening his personal Instagram account, his feed showed Thursday. Kang launched the account on Wednesday as he gears up for a solo career [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The Fair Trade Commission will look into online influencers who advertise commercial products on their individual social media accounts without disclosing that they are being paid for the advertisement. The commission announced yesterday that it would carry out an intensive investigation into deceptive advertisements posted on Instagram, a social [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Harmful suicide-related information was found to be easily accessible by users on social media websites, particularly on Instagram, where the greatest number of posts regarding such information was found. The Ministry of Health and Welfare in association with police officials and the Korea Suicide Prevention Center said yesterday that [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Kim Min-kyung, a 23-year-old newlywed, says her life revolves around Instagram, from getting tips to buying beauty products. She is a huge fan of Im Ji-hyun, an online celebrity and beauty guru with over 7.9 million followers who avidly keep close tabs on her every move. Im is better [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean smartphone users spent more time on Instagram and less on Facebook in May compared to a year earlier, a research showed Tuesday. According to the report released by industry tracker WiseApp, South Korean smartphone users spent a combined 4.2 billion minutes on the popular U.S.-based social media [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Koreans are using Instagram, the wildly popular photo-sharing app and service, according to new research. The study conducted by artificial intelligence-based big data analysis firm Daumsoft revealed the number of posts uploaded on Instagram jumped nearly 240 percent between 2015 and last year. The number [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Judging by the numbers, the habit of owning pets has found a permanent home in South Korean culture. Marketing firm Innocean Worldwide predicted that the domestic “petconomy” will double from 2.9 trillion won last year to 5.8 trillion won by 2020 in a report detailing the latest consumer trends [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — “Work-life balance”, “feel-good value”, “more mobile” and “relationship ennui”. These four phrases espouse the lifestyle preferences of South Korea’s millennial generation, according to a big data analysis of 12 billion posts on social networking services conducted by advertising agency HS Ad. Referring to young adults born between the early [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram said Thursday its monthly active users in South Korea surpassed the 10 million mark for the first time in August. The feat came 17 months after the social media said its users in South Korea came to 6 million in March 2016. Instagram [...]