SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Controversy is rising among South Korean adults after South Korea’s Korea Communications Commission (KCC) decided to come up with stricter measures to block online pornography and gambling. The decision comes in the midst of a societal crisis in South Korea in which illegal pictures of women are being distributed [...]
SEOUL, May 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Having been fined in March for slowing user connections in 2016 and 2017, Facebook, the world’s largest social media website, has hit back by filing a lawsuit asking for “restrictions to be lifted on the order” on Sunday, according to sources familiar with the situation. The company has also [...]
SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) announced yesterday the development of a smartphone application that will foster the prevention of smartphone addiction in youth. One function of the application locks the screen of the smartphone when a young user is walking while using the device. The service will initiate today. [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean government has warned one of the country’s major mobile networks over its alleged subsidies to boost sales of Samsung’s latest smartphone, the Galaxy Note 8, a marketing practice prohibited under current legislation. According to the Korea Communications Commission on Monday, the government branch which controls mobile phone [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Telemarketers can be annoying, and sometimes leave you wondering how they got your phone number. The KCC (Korea Communications Commission) revealed on May 5 that in accordance with the newly revised Information & Communications Network Law, telemarketers must reveal the source from which they acquired the personal information of [...]
SEOUL, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – It is expected that all traces of resident registration numbers on the Internet will be removed by the end of this year. According to the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) on July 21, as the revised Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection has entered into effect, [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecom watchdog said Wednesday it will take a closer look into KakaoTaxi, a cab-hailing mobile application rolled out by the country’s top messenger operator Daum Kakao, on whether it has failed to abide by its terms of use related to location privacy. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said [...]
SEOUL, April 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The government said Friday it will ease regulations on major television networks’ advertising time to help boost the struggling TV advertising market in fair competition with paid TV services under less strict rules. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) approved a revised broadcasting bill that would scrap the currently strict rules [...]
“For two days on Saturday and Sunday [November 1 and 2], it is regrettable that some mobile phone retail outlets paid illegal subsidies to iPhone 6 buyers who had to wait for hours in long lines. We will make sure this kind of unfortunate incident will not happen again by using all means possible.” “There [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Last weekend, a 100,000 won, or about US$93, iPhone 6 swept Seoul. As soon as the information on its flash sale hit the street, people who have craved for the new Apple phone started waiting in long lines to obtain the much less expensive one. A new law intended [...]