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, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study revealed most young people in South Korea get news through their mobile phones. A survey conducted by the Korea Press Foundation found that seven out of ten people over 19 years of age now consume news using mobile phones. The number increased by over 5 percentage [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Koreans’ consumption rate of news coverage through public TV networks in 2014 dropped to 84.7 percent from 93.8 percent in 2013, according to a survey of 5,061 Koreans over 19 about Korea’s media consumption in 2014 that was published by the Korea Press Foundation on January 30. The rate [...]
SEOUL, Dec 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Google will move into the Korean online news service market by launching “Google Play Newsstand,” directly competing with incumbents like Naver and Daum Kakao. Google Korea said on December 11 that it has unveiled a new smartphone app by which readers can subscribe to a variety of news publications [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, South Korea’s top messenger service provider, is about to initiate news services. Kakao will embark on a beta service as an application type at the outset of next week and, after overcoming its shortcomings through the test service, it will initiate the official news services within this year, [...]