SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — As local banks suffer from reduced net interest margins, they are looking to reduce operational costs to overcome their difficulties. KB Kookmin Bank is urging its employees to report their business activities verbally or via email, not through color prints or full color Powerpoint charts to save costs on printer toner [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — For Yang Jun-mo, a 26-year-old graduate student in Seoul, visiting a neighborhood convenience store for light snacks is a daily routine. But every time, there is one thing that grabs his attention: his favorite brands of bread come with collectible stickers of emojis from free mobile messenger KakaoTalk. “It kind [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has trumped other major countries in terms of mobile application (app) usage, with smartphone owners in the country spending most of their time on social messengers, a report showed Thursday. The index gauging the mobile data usage by South Korean smartphone users reached 125 in the first [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao, which operates South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Wednesday it is “considering” taking over U.S.-based messenger service Path, although no details have been decided. “It is true that our working-level team has reviewed the plan (to take over Path),” an official from Daum Kakao said. “However, [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – To raise awareness about endangered animals threatened with extinction in Korea, and promote the value of our environment, the Korean government and a mobile messenger provider will distribute emoticons featuring the animals. The Ministry of Environment and Daum Kakao, the operator of mobile messenger app KakaoTalk, announced on April 2 [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger, KakaoTalk, rolled out Tuesday its cab-booking mobile application for smartphone users, extending the service to a full lineup after it launched a similar platform for taxi drivers early this year. KakaoTaxi, available for downloading at Google Play for Android users, [...]
“For some time now, Daum Kakao’s business strategy will be focused on Southeast Asia, and we’re exploring other markets to land our services. The new frontier will be apart from the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia where we’ve already set up offices.” “At the initial stage, we heavily invested in marketing sections aimed at expanding our [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will cut support for its proprietary mobile operation system “Bada,” proving that it failed in its development of the OS. According to industry watchers, Samsung recently announced that it would stop running the Bada developers’ forum on its Bada developers’ site (http://developer.bada.com). Last year, Samsung officially declared [...]
“Turkish men are good to their women. There is no such thing as two timing. There is no concept of cheating in Turkey.” (Remarks in Non-Summit aired in July this year) “I am well aware why people are so angry about me. Quite contrary to my usual conservative remarks on TV, people may feel betrayed [...]
“In order to be reborn as a truly responsive political party to people’s demand, we need to be able to communicate constantly with them in real time in the online space. We must revitalize the new media platform and social networking site organizations.” “All task force members should think themselves as messengers to invigorate social [...]