SEOUL, Korea, April 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A “Yellow Ribbon Campaign” is spreading out among Koreans who yearn for safe returns of the missing passengers who were on board of the capsized ferry “Sewol.” The campaign started with an online posting in a community forum site, which urged people to put up a picture [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone technology is now no longer limited to voice and text messaging. Since the introduction of the Apple iPhone in 2009, things have changed for good. For the past four years, there has been the so-called “Data Big Bang” in which people’s data traffic usage has risen in [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Four out of five Korean teens possess smartphones and of all the functions they use mostly for chatting through mobile messengers services like KakaoTalk. Also, one out of four has had experience viewing adult contents through them. According to the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family which conducted [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Feb 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Among Korean teenagers, a game called celebrity game is a big hit, kind of a tool for the youths to escape from their dry and harsh realities, reported Hankooki.com, Hankook Daily newspaper’s online edition. According to the report, the role playing game assuming themselves as famous K-pop celebs through [...]
SEOUL, July (Korea Bizwire) – This is a KakaoTalk’s TV commercial aired in Indonesia. In the ad campaign, K-pop mega star BIGBANG appeared together with local songstress Sherina to appeal to the Indonesian market. KakaoTalk is a multi-platform texting app that allows iPhone, Android, and BlackBerry users to send and receive messages for free. After [...]