SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver’s global messenger ‘LINE’ is dominating mobile communications in Thailand with the lion’s share of the mobile messenger market. According to Naver, there are currently 33 million LINE users in Thailand. Considering that the country’s total population is 68 million and that 63 percent of Thais own a smartphone, [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – With rapid growth in the character business that features collaborations between the emojis of mobile messengers like KakaoTalk of DaumKakao and Line of Naver, the two largest IT companies in Korea are enjoying the effect of killing two birds with one stone. As the “Kakao Friends” and “Line Friends” emojis raise [...]
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, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver said Monday that its free messaging app Line will be pre-installed on Microsoft‘s soon-to-be-released Lumia 540 smartphone, reflecting its growing popularity around the globe. “The Lumia 540 will be pre-installed with the Line application, although it does not mean that all of the future [...]
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 [...]
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — LINE, the world’s leading mobile platform, and The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) signed a global partnership agreement on February 13, 2015. Jong Nam Oh, Executive Director of The Korean Committee for UNICEF and Jung-ho Shin, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of LINE Plus Corporation and Chief Globalization Officer [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — LG is launching its HomeChat premium smart appliance service in the U.S. LG HomeChat is the latest innovation from the tech powerhouse that allows users to input commands in natural language and receive answers from smart appliances, also in natural language. HomeChat works together with LINE, so you can [...]
TOKYO, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE Corporation, owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE, today announced the release of a new update for the app, version 4.8. Included as a new feature in this update, the mobile payment service “LINE Pay” has now been released globally.1 LINE is used in a [...]
“Beginning in December this year we will launch Line Pay in Japan. With this payment service, we will strengthen the shopping unit of Naver. Google considers Amazon as its biggest rival. It shows how much attention Internet companies pay to shopping services.” “The major money-making businesses on the Internet are advertising and shopping. In order [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Global mobile messenger “Line” said on November 17 that it has opened a Line Friends Store within the compound of Everland, a theme park located in the southern outskirts of Seoul. This is the third store in Korea following ones in Lotte Young Plaza in Seoul’s Myung-dong and the [...]