SEOUL, May 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has trumped other major countries in terms of mobile application usage, with local smartphone users using various software to play games, a report showed Wednesday. People here used mobile apps on an average of 200 minutes per day during the first quarter of this year, outpacing Brazil, [...]
DAEJEON, April 17 (Korea Bizwire) – With zero exaggeration, the experience on the app is horrifying. As soon as one launches the app, the user (victim) gets a fake phone call. When answered, a girl threatens the victim, telling her to reply to Kakao Talk messages. The app then asks the user for his or her [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Talk is South Korea’s most popular messaging application, boasting 50 million active monthly users around the world. Among the dozen or so notification sounds offered by the app is “Obama Talk”, which was taken from an actual speech made by former U.S. president Barack Obama, where he mentioned [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The health ministry said Tuesday it will expand a pilot program connecting health care clinics with patients with chronic disease through a mobile application. Under the program pushed forward by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, 25 state-run clinics across the country will assist 3,500 people over the age [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been a year since two Korean startup companies – Buzzvil and Yello Mobile – began a legal dispute over a patent for smartphone lock screen apps that pay users, usually in the form of points, when they unlock their smartphones and engage with ads. Such apps have [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – AppShow Korea 2016 kicked off Wednesday for a three-day run at Seoul’s COEX, with some 112 app developers in attendance. The annual event will provide an important promotion platform and business opportunities for developers and startups in a wide range of businesses, from fintech and smart devices to IoT [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The Electronic and Telecommunications Research Institute is developing a mobile application that allows users to create 3D content using smartphones, announced the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning. Producing 3D content usually requires professional knowledge of equipment and software, making the process highly complicated for daily use. However, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Mobile applications that automatically record phone calls are gaining popularity in Korea, whether they be used for leaving evidence in cases of conflict or simply for future reference by storing the conversations. One of these apps even played a significant role in the recent investigation of Korea’s ongoing presidential [...]
DAEJEON, Nov. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been a month since Koreans started to take to the streets to protest the ongoing political scandal. Now, a new smartphone app will better serve over one million (organizer estimate) citizens that will once again gather in Seoul’s Gwanghwamun neighborhood this Saturday. The app is called the [...]
BOCA RATON, Fla., Sept. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — VERB, a mobile fintech company, announced today that their VERB app waitlist is officially open to the public and waitlist users will have a chance to win the 2017 VIP trip to THE BIG GAME MMXVII in Houston, Texas. VERB is set to launch the first mobile app that gamifies the US [...]