SEOUL, Apr. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – The military on Monday began to conduct a three-month pilot program to allow all rank-and-file soldiers to use their mobile phones after daily duties before it decides whether to implement it, the defense ministry said. Since April last year, it has expanded the number of military units, whose soldiers [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 63 percent of South Koreans have used banking and payment services via smartphones as a growing number are getting familiar with the tech device in their everyday lives, a central bank poll showed Tuesday. The survey of 2,597 adults, conducted by the Bank of Korea (BOK) last [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — An Army battalion in Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi Province held a meeting on Thursday to discuss the recent policy of allowing soldiers to use mobile phones at military bases. Soldiers at the battalion have been using cellphones since last August. At the meeting, officers and soldiers exchanged their views on the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of National Defense announced on January 16 that it will expand the use of mobile phones to all units of the ROK Army, Navy, Air Force and the Marine Corps. The use of mobile phones is currently limited to certain units, but from April, all soldiers will [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — With the active use of mobile phones in North Korea increasing, suggestions have been made that the two Koreas should cooperate to introduce mobile financial services in North Korea and ultimately create a unified Korean Peninsula network. According to the IBK Economic Research Institute on North Korea, there are [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — The ICT ministry said Monday it is pushing to expand the discount rate of household communication fees, such as mobile phone rates, as the expenditures on telecommunication services are viewed as a burden for many South Korean consumers. The plan by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – A rising number of seniors are purchasing the latest smartphones, industry data showed Thursday, breaking the perception that older users normally buy traditional handsets with buttons. According to the data compiled SK Telecom Co., 74 percent of its users aged 60 and above used smartphones as of April. The [...]
NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – A new survey released by Deloitte today confirms American consumers’ dependence on mobile phones continues to rise as the platform of choice for work, home and self across an increasing range of tasks. Consumers now check their smartphone more than 9 billion times per day and increasingly do so while [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of mobile phones being used in North Korea came to 3.24 million as of July last year, a U.S. broadcaster reported Wednesday, citing the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency’s recently updated version of the World Factbook. The Voice of America (VOA) said the North’s mobile phone subscriptions per [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s Mobile Device Distribution Improvement Act went into effect in October 2014, setting a price cap on the amount of subsidies that one can receive when purchasing a new smartphone. The law was intended to establish more generalized smartphone prices, which tended to fluctuate highly from store to store, [...]