SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean social network service (SNS) Kakao Story has lost five million users over the past year. Experts say that the decline in users occurred due to competition with overseas social networks, but some also point out that an increase in commercial content drove users away. JTBC, a Korean TV network, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook is the most popular social networking service (SNS) in South Korea this year, a poll showed Tuesday, outpacing other global and local platforms. According to a survey by market researcher DMC Media on 780 SNS users aged between 19 and 59, 59.8 percent picked Facebook as their most-used [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans keep tracks of their SNS channels for fun and information seeking, according to a paper written by Lee Jeong-kwon, a doctoral student at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Lee conducted a study concerning 248 individuals who were using opened SNS and closed, private SNS last year. When asked [...]
“Continuous service innovation, aimed at creating brand new value, is the key to enriching mobile user experience.” SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp. co-chief executive Lee Sirgoo, who was a keynote speaker at Mobile Asia Expo 2014 (MAE 2014) held in Shanghai, China, stressed that a successful mobile platform should be firmly based [...]