SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The 2016 white paper on the videogame industry from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency revealed that Korea’s videogame industry continues to grow, exceeding the 10-trillion-won mark for the first time in 2015 at 10.72 trillion won ($9.5 billion). The number, according [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea is home to some of the world’s fastest mobile Internet infrastructures, but lags behind the United States and China in the utilization of web information, a report showed Wednesday. Although Koreans enjoy better access to the Internet using their smartphones, they are less active than Americans and [...]
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, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it will unveil a premium mobile digital radiograph at an industry congress this week. The GM85 digital X-ray features “exceptional mobility, enhanced user convenience and a high image quality,” Samsung said in a statement. The new machine will be unveiled at the 19th World [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean prosecutors conducted 533 individual cases of telecommunications-related monitoring through August from 2012, a lawmaker said Tuesday, urging the government to reorganize its privacy-related policies that can better protect the rights of its people. Around 63 percent of the monitoring was made on request by South Korea’s intelligence [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Mobile Internet speeds in Seoul are the fastest among seven cities in the world, a survey by a U.S. mobile analytics firm showed on Tuesday. In Seoul, a median download speed for the wireless network run by mobile carrier LG Uplus is 74.7 Mbps, followed by Madrid with 44.6 [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of cyberbullying cases observed by local schools jumped in 2015 from three years earlier, data showed Monday, in line with the sharp increase in mobile messenger users. According to the data compiled by the parliament’s education committee, the number of cyberbullying cases monitored by schools came to [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea ranked 14th among 134 countries in terms of mobile internet connectivity, a global association of mobile operators said on Tuesday. According to the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSMA), South Korea scored 80.7 out of 100 in four key areas of mobile internet connectivity –infrastructure, affordability, consumer [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of the Interior revealed yesterday that it will implement new mobile systems for social affairs. Over the course of a three-year plan, up to 3,000 social affairs services will become available from smartphones. Social affairs services include the issuance of various types of documents such as resident [...]
SEOUL, Feb.17 (Korea Bizwire) – Even though we are living in a ‘mobile first’ era, when most of the tasks we used to do on a PC are now easily completed on mobile phones, it turns out that PC usage still outpaces mobile usage in certain areas. Although mobile use is increasing, this doesn’t mean [...]