SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are spending more time on mobile apps, with their average daily usage hours of such apps breaking the five hour mark in the third quarter of this year for the first time in history, an industry tracker said. The number of app downloads worldwide totaled 36 billion [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey has revealed that up to 540,000 “platform economy” workers are engaged in a variety of delivery and chauffer services through digital platforms such as mobile apps. A platform economy worker refers to a person who provides services and earns income via an online media brokerage and [...]
SEOUL, June 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite the South Korean elderly (60 and above) spending fewer hours on their smartphones compared to other age groups, they turned out to be the biggest readers of mobile news. In a study conducted by the Barun ICT Research Center (Yonsei University), older Koreans spent an average of 18.8 [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea has trumped other Asian Pacific countries in terms of mobile financial service usage, a report showed Monday. Users in South Korea had over 7 billion sessions in banking apps in 2016, which was nearly four times as many compared to Australians, according to the latest report by [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) – LINE, the mobile messaging app of South Korean portal giant NAVER, has beaten its rivals in sales of applications available on Google Play Store for the past four years, a global industry tracker said Friday. In the four years up to March this year, the Korean messaging app topped others in [...]