SEOUL, Jan.21 (Korea Bizwire) – User-created content uploaded to Facebook, YouTube and blogs will be increasingly featured on Naver’s search engine. Naver announced that it will apply a web collection method to gather information and provide the data in search results. Prior to the new service, users had to apply themselves to add their content [...]
SEOUL, Jan.4 (Korea Bizwire) – With Korean internet giants Naver and Kakao bolstering their mobile real estate service offerings, competition is becoming fierce. The mobile real estate brokerage market, which has been lead by startups like ZigBang, is expected to grow significantly this year. According to industry reports, Naver has launched the official version of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook is the most popular social networking service (SNS) in South Korea this year, a poll showed Tuesday, outpacing other global and local platforms. According to a survey by market researcher DMC Media on 780 SNS users aged between 19 and 59, 59.8 percent picked Facebook as their most-used [...]
SEOUL, Dec.15 (Korea Bizwire) – Following Google and Facebook, Naver is also set to launch 360 degree video services. The Korean web giant announced on December 14 that it will be launching 360 degree virtual reality (VR) video services within the month. Instead of watching videos taken from the perspective of the person making the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy smartphone was selected as the most valuable brand in South Korea for the fifth consecutive year, a survey showed Sunday. The Samsung Galaxy phone ranked first in the brand survey by Seoul-based market researcher Brandstock, followed by E-Mart, a discount store chain [...]
SEOUL, Dec.2 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver has announced the results of an analysis of the words that were searched for on its portal site as part of its ‘2015 Naver Search Word Settlement’. The word that was searched the most on PC was ‘Youtube’, while ‘weather’ ranked first on mobile. The keyword ‘Daum’ ranked second [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver’s global messenger ‘LINE’ is dominating mobile communications in Thailand with the lion’s share of the mobile messenger market. According to Naver, there are currently 33 million LINE users in Thailand. Considering that the country’s total population is 68 million and that 63 percent of Thais own a smartphone, [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s market for mobile advertisements is expected to surpass the 1 trillion won (US$849 million) mark this year on the back of the country’s high smartphone penetration, data showed Friday. The market size is estimated to reach 1.05 trillion won this year, which will mark a 27.2 percent [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean ruling party’s fresh accusation of the nation’s two major Internet portals over their “biased” news editing has surfaced as a hot-button issue, sparking concerns the party is trying to control the portals and influence public opinion ahead of next year’s parliamentary election. The row flared up [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Under media consumption tendencies where most video content is dominated by major entertainment companies, an online independent film theater achieved a remarkable result by attracting more than three million accumulated viewers. Naver’s “Indie Cinema,” an online independent film theater jointly run by Naver, the largest Internet portal in Korea, [...]