SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Inc., Korea’s largest online portal and the operator of global mobile messenger Line, said on October 24 that it has opened “Line Friends Store” within the Shilla Duty Free Shop in Jeju Island. This is the second store after the first one in Lotte Department Store in Seoul’s [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 9 (Korea Bizwire) –As walking along Cheonggyecheon, a stream that runs through downtown Seoul, you meet many used bookstores where books are piled up like towers. Now only 25 bookstores remain, unlike 200 in their heyday, 1960s through 1970s. Moreover, there are only about 100 secondhand bookstores in the Seoul metro area. Although [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Whilst the renewed Korea’s over-the-counter (OTC) market soared in transaction volume 15 times higher than the Freeboard, the former OTC market, in the first month of opening on August 25, Samsung SDS topped with almost 70 percent of the trading volume in the market. According to the Korea Financial Investment Association, [...]
![[Quote] New Daum Kakao Aims to Be Lifestyle Service Platform Provider](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Executive-Portrait_Sirgoo-Lee-Co-CEO-of-Kakao.jpg "[Quote] New Daum Kakao Aims to Be Lifestyle Service Platform Provider")
“With differentiated core competitiveness of Kakao and Daum, we will lead the mobile age and the next age after the mobile age. For it, we will expand our influential power not only in the domestic market but in the global market.” “The new Daum Kakao will grow as a lifestyle service platform provider putting together [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, the most popular portal site in South Korea, announced on August 22 that it would launch a mobile web service called Musician League, an open platform for musicians, which makes mobile users now listen to new songs and communicate with musicians through the platform. The company has applied [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea’s online game companies posted disappointing results for the second quarter. NHN Entertainment (formerly Hangame) said on August 7 it recorded an operating loss of 7.3 billion won(US$7.08 million) for the quarter. This is the first quarterly loss for the company since its founding as a gaming division of Naver in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver Inc., Korea’s largest online search engine company, said on August 7 that it would begin providing classic car information on its Naver Auto site. Currently the company offers automobile information on its Naver Auto page (http://auto.naver.com/index.nhn), including 1,523 models from 42 manufacturers. The newly added databases include the information on [...]
SEOUL, July 18 (Korea Bizwire) – For the first time among Internet portal service providers, Naver began providing stock quotes and corporate information of companies listed on the Korea New Exchange (KONEX) market. KONEX is a stock market exclusively for small- and medium-sized companies to help them raise funds easily. So far KONEX market information has been [...]
LOS ANGELES, Jul. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — LINE Webtoon, the popular mobile comic app, launched in the United States and worldwide on smartphones, tablets and web browsers. Fans can now view LINE Webtoon through downloading the app for free on Google Play for Android devices starting today and on iOS devices on the Apple App [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire)– Naver, largest web portal in Korea, has begun offering its mobile dictionary application intended for overseas users — a first move for the nation’s portal industry — stepping up its investment in overseas market and mobile application, two pillars of the company’s business expansion plan. The portal company announced last [...]