SEOUL, Aug. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics will load Joyn Blackbird service, dubbed as a “mobile carrier version of KakaoTalk,” in its smartphones for the first time in the industry. On August 4, Samsung announced that it became the first smartphone handset manufacturer by securing the service into its Galaxy S4 and Galaxy S5. Joyn Blackbird [...]
SEOUL, July 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Even if you are a good-hearted who believes there are many people out there in this world who are less fortunate and in desperate need of help, it is often hard for you to put the idea into action. Making donations for good causes may often be a burden [...]
SEOUL, June 16 (Korea Bizwire) – “Snowball,” a mobile ad app that gives out reward points to anyone who makes recommendations to their friends, is gaining popularity from smartphone users. According to Google Play and Apple App Store on June 2, the number of downloads for Snowball on their services is rapidly on the rise. [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s No. 1 mobile messenger KakaoTalk will start its own mobile wallet service by which the users can make wire transfers and transactions in the second half of 2014. On May 29, according to financial industry sources, Kakao Inc. will start servicing “Bank Wallet Kakao” which is an electronic [...]
SEOUL, May 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Bidworks, a company specializing in public bid-related services, said on May 26 that it has launched a new smartphone app “Bid App” that allows users to view information on all available public auctions. The app provides a variety of information on bids announced by Public Procurement Service’s KONEPS (Korea [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]