SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans pride themselves on the world’s highest smartphone penetration rate at 96 percent. So which social networking platforms are most popular among Korean smartphone users? According to a recent study by market research firm Nielsen Koreanclick, 91.7 percent of mobile device users (Android smartphones only) made regular use [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) revealed Sunday that it has made adjustments to what it deemed as unfair clauses in the terms of service of four major social media platforms – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and KakaoStory. The four social media platforms did not clarify, in their terms of service, [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KakaoStory, a photo-sharing service operated by Daum Kakao, was the most popular social networking service (SNS) in South Korea last year, a poll showed Tuesday, outpacing Facebook and other global platforms. According to the survey conducted by Hankook Research on 9,381 people aged between 13 and 69, 51.8 percent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Inc. will introduce a new service called “Story Channel” on its KakaoStory similar to Facebook page. Unlike a series of postings by friends, this is news feeds on certain topics. Kakao, the operator of popular mobile messenger service KakaoTalk, said on September 4 that it would launch on the 16th Story [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 25, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – As Kakao transformed itself into a mobile commerce company officially, a tectonic change is afoot in the mobile commerce industry. Recently, Korea On-Line Shopping Association (KOLSA) approved Kakao, the provider of Korea’s largest mobile messenger service KakaoTalk, as its new member. As KOLSA is an umbrella group [...]