SEJONG, May 15 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea saw a 42-percent plunge in public movement in late February, as the novel coronavirus was ravaging the nation, mobile phone data showed Friday. Public movement sank 41.9 percent on Feb. 29, when the nation reported more than 900 daily infections, compared with the same day a year [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The monthly data usage by South Koreans subscribing to unlimited package plans came to nearly 20 gigabytes (GB), government findings showed Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Science and ICT, local smartphone users subscribing to unlimited data plans used an average of 19.8 GB of data in June, more [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom has partnered with The Pokémon Company for a joint marketing venture, temporarily offering a zero-rating on Pokémon GO until June. This means that players will not be charged for mobile data that they use while playing the AR game, although officials said data [...]
SEOUL, May 18 (Korea Bizwire) – “Most game makers that succeeded in the world market analyze data on each national market’s users and their live time value constantly. Domestic game publishers and developers must do the same to raise their winning possibilities in the global market.” This is what Lee Chang-soo, president of 5Rocks, Korea’s mobile [...]