SEOUL, Apr. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s internet industry saw its revenue surpass 600 trillion won (US$435.5 billion) for the first time in 2022, data showed Monday. The total sales of the local internet industry reached 622.1 trillion won in 2022, up 16.6 percent from 533.7 billion won a year ago, according to data [...]
SEOUL, May 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Drug offenders in South Korea are rapidly increasing their presence on social media and other online platforms, data showed Monday. Approximately 25 percent (3,092) of the 12,387 individuals caught in illegal drug cases last year sold drugs on the internet, according to the National Police Agency data submitted to [...]
LAGOS, Nigeria, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — As part of its commitment to empowering more Nigerians, stimulating economic activities, and widening the broadband envelope in Africa with affordable broadband connectivity, West Africa’s pioneer solar-based internet service provider, Tizeti, has partnered with Microsoft Corp. to roll out high-speed Airband internet infrastructure in Oyo State. With forty [...]
SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The average amount of time South Koreans spent using the internet reached over 20 hours per week last year, 2.7 hours more than the time spent the previous year amid the stay-at-home trend driven by the pandemic, a report showed Wednesday. South Koreans used the internet 20.1 hours a [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — An analysis of the ranking of real-time search words on portal sites by age group showed that there are distinct differences in the main interests of each generation. South Korea’s leading portal operator Naver Corp. revealed on Wednesday its analysis of 2019’s popular search words. Those in their teens [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has started offering super high-speed internet service for the entire country that will allow universal, convenient access to online data, the government said Sunday. “High-speed internet has been designated as a universal service that everyone is entitled to receive no matter where they are,” the Ministry of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — An institutional foundation has been prepared for the use of low-cost and ultra-high-speed 60 GHz band wireless backhaul. To that end, Internet data can be transmitted wirelessly using unlicensed spectrum. Backhaul refers to a base station that connects the edge network and backbone network, which is the top network. [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven in 10 South Koreans are in favor of the mandatory use of real names in posting comments on the internet, according to a poll released Wednesday. The poll of 502 adults nationwide conducted Tuesday by pollster Realmeter found that 69.5 percent support the use of real names in [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Sixteen percent of young South Korean students are at risk of smartphone or Internet addiction, a poll released by the government said Tuesday. According to the survey of 1,286,567 fourth, seventh and 10th graders by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, 206,102 students, or 16 percent, were found [...]
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Quantenna Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ : QTNA) announced today that Quantenna’s QV860 chipset is powering TIME dotCom’s latest dual-band dual concurrent mesh extender, the WiFi Booster. Based on the AirTies Air 4830, the WiFi Booster leverages the high-performance capabilities of Spartan architecture to bring extended coverage, increased capacity and [...]