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, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Statistics Korea and Naver, the top big data holders in the public and private sectors respectively, have joined hands to create public value based on big data. On September 2, Statistics Korea announced that it signed an MoU with Naver, Korea’s top Internet portal operator, to construct a society prediction [...]
SEOUL, August 4 (Korea Bizwire) – If internet portal sites such as Naver and Daum Kakao were to establish internet-only banks, they would be allowed to enroll new customers on their own portal sites. However, when banks set up internet-only financial institutions and are the largest shareholder, they could be disadvantaged during the accreditation review. The [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – With rapid growth in the character business that features collaborations between the emojis of mobile messengers like KakaoTalk of DaumKakao and Line of Naver, the two largest IT companies in Korea are enjoying the effect of killing two birds with one stone. As the “Kakao Friends” and “Line Friends” emojis raise [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, rolled out a real-time video streaming app on Friday that features behind-the-scenes stories of popular K-pop artists, as it seeks to expand its global presence with the new mobile media platform. Dubbed V, the app is designed to provide footage of top Korean singers [...]
SEOUL, July 28 (Korea Bizwire) – The entertainment industry is setting an aggressive approach to new media, such as internet broadcasting and mobile apps. While national television and cable channels used to be the key points of promotion, as the media environment changed, advertising is expanding into the territory of the Internet and mobile media [...]
Seoul, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver has announced that they will be providing indoor maps for 328 major transportation and business facilities nationwide. Using Naver indoor maps, one can get information on the location beforehand, avoiding the chaos occurring in crowded and complex areas. Users can find out where the nearest customer centers, elevators and washrooms [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — As the quantity of search activities on mobile web platforms has surpassed that on PC versions in Korea, Korean web portals are re-designing their mobile platforms to be more personalized. Naver has introduced a ‘tag-search’ service for its mobile platform, which is based on an algorithm named ‘I-rank.’ The [...]
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver, South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, said Thursday it has started a mobile payment service as part of a push into the fast-growing online platform business for e-commerce. Naver Pay, available starting Thursday, allows users to pay for an item online only with their Naver IDs, a stark [...]