SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — For Yang Jun-mo, a 26-year-old graduate student in Seoul, visiting a neighborhood convenience store for light snacks is a daily routine. But every time, there is one thing that grabs his attention: his favorite brands of bread come with collectible stickers of emojis from free mobile messenger KakaoTalk. “It kind [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has trumped other major countries in terms of mobile application (app) usage, with smartphone owners in the country spending most of their time on social messengers, a report showed Thursday. The index gauging the mobile data usage by South Korean smartphone users reached 125 in the first [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean President Park Geun-hye announced a plan Monday to take advantage of big data to create new business opportunities as she launched a new innovation center. “Big data is a new capital of the creative economy,” Park said in the opening ceremony of the latest innovation center in [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — On May 6, Naver, Korea’s largest search portal, signed a MoU with the National Police Agency Cyber Bureau in a bid to prevent cybercrimes. Within the first quarter of the year, Naver will provide a search widget that netizens can use to verify whether a phone number or account number [...]
SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top portal operator Naver said Monday that its free messaging app Line will be pre-installed on Microsoft‘s soon-to-be-released Lumia 540 smartphone, reflecting its growing popularity around the globe. “The Lumia 540 will be pre-installed with the Line application, although it does not mean that all of the future [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Yonhap) – South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Monday it will seek to add more transparency to its management of privacy by having exclusive lawyers review and possibly reject warrants, amid rising concerns over the government’s censorship online. “Starting in April, Naver will adopt a new system in which lawyers [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator said Thursday that Internet-only banks are expected to be launched in South Korea in 2015 as it is working on detailed measures to encourage big name IT firms like Naver and Daum Kakao to invest in the online banking industry. Under the current financial laws, a [...]
SEOUL, March 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver has opened an online video-clip encyclopedia composed of more than 20,000 clips, said the company on March 20. The video encyclopedia covers various subjects such as math, science, sociology, arts and medicine. The clips, sourced from Naver’s own digital archives and EBS, were scattered over the entire Naver platform [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver will start a Closed Beta Test (CBT) for its new SNS service ‘Pholar,’ which is based on the shared interest of users through tagging activities, on February 25, said the company on February 20. Pholar will be a very effective and convenient user-to-user interaction platform that facilitates users’ sorting [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Corp., South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, on Thursday reported a sharp increase in seizure warrants for information sought by government investigators over the past two years, a development that could rekindle controversy over cyber censorship. In its latest report on the protection of private information, Naver said [...]