SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean teachers are almost unanimous in agreeing that students should not be able to use mobile phones in classroom without restrictions, a new survey has found. According to the survey released by the Korea Federation of Teacher’s Associations on Wednesday, the vast majority of teachers expressed disapproval towards allowing [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea ranked seventh in the world in terms of per capita mobile data usage last year among 41 major economies checked, a report said Tuesday. The average South Korean used 4.6 gigabytes per month in 2016, according to the Digital Fuel Monitor (DFM) report by Rewheel, a Finnish [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The market for personal broadcasting that allows ordinary individuals to broadcast themselves on the internet is rapidly growing. Afreeca TV was once what most Koreans associated with personal broadcasting. The name of this internet television service, which is an acronym for “Any FREE broadCAsting,” suggests just that; anybody, anywhere, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – SK hynix Inc. has released a more advanced memory chip for smartphones that will offer higher data storage for mobile devices, company officials said Monday. The 8-gigabyte LPDDR4X chip boasts the “world’s highest density” and features faster data processing speed while consuming less electricity, SK hynix said in a [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Mobile stock trading in South Korea has soared more than 30 percent in 2016 from a year ago, helped mainly by brokerages’ stepped-up marketing for smartphone users, data showed Thursday. According to the data by the Korea Exchange, a daily average of 250.5 million shares were traded via the [...]
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 [...]