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 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Woowa Brothers Corp., Korea’s food delivery app developer, said on October 10 that it would launch a new service “Line Wow” jointly with Japan’s Line, a mobile messenger service. The two companies will make available a food delivery app and corresponding services within the year’s end. In the beginning, the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Due to the recent controversy over the censorship on mobile messenger conversations, as many as 1.67 million users stopped using home-made mobile messengers including KakaoTalk, NateOn, and Line. In contrast, the number of users for “Telegram,” the mobile messenger app developed in Germany, has gained by a large margin. According [...]
Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE Corporation, owner and operator of the free call and messaging app LINE, today announced that its official camera app, LINE camera, has surpassed the 100 million global download mark as of September 22. LINE camera is LINE’s official camera app, and provides users with the functionality to [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Green Car, an official car sharing operator in Seoul and the largest player in terms of the market share, is promoting a special event together with mobile messenger Line. Intended to generate a sense of connection and affinity among peoples — mobile-savvy potential consumers in particular, to its service [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Line, NHN Group‘s global messenger application company, announced that it opened a “Line Pop-up Store” in Lotte Department Store’s Jamsil branch and will keep the store open until September 10. The store will offer various living goods including mugs and T-shirts designed with Line characters. The products not only include [...]