SEOUL, Sept. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Chosun Ilbo, a major conservative newspaper, and TV Chosun, an affiliated cable network, rank near the top of the most distrustful media in Korea, a recent survey has shown. According to the 2019 Media Confidence survey of some 1,000 adult men and women conducted by weekly magazine SisaIN, the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Worry and disappointment over press reports that detail the modus operandi and implements used to facilitate suicide deaths continue to rage on, but critics say nothing much has been done to improve the situation. Shin Eun-jung, the deputy head of the Korea Suicide Prevention Center, was present at a [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — A new survey has revealed that Koreans rank last in the level of trust in their local news. According to the “Digital News Report 2018” from Oxford University’s Reuters Institute, the average level of trust in the media by Koreans was surveyed at 25 percent, which was good for [...]
NAMYANGJU, Aug. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The city of Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province, said in a public statement that it had identified geographic locations at varying risk of outbreaks of disease through the application of big data technology. The city government charted a map of the city by combing through 2,072 civilian reports of disease carrying [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of daily newspapers in South Korea — national and regional combined — totaled 399 as of the end of last year, according to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Korean Association of Newspapers (KAN) Friday. The number represents a gain of 16 from the [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent study revealed most young people in South Korea get news through their mobile phones. A survey conducted by the Korea Press Foundation found that seven out of ten people over 19 years of age now consume news using mobile phones. The number increased by over 5 percentage [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Two major South Korean web portals – Naver and Daum – have introduced artificial intelligence mechanisms that can recommend news articles to viewers. Article arrangement is a crucial part of the news editing process, and considering that Naver and Daum are two of the most popular platforms for South [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver, South Korea’s leading web portal, said Friday that it is launching a beta service for AIRS (AI Recommender System), the company’s up and coming AI system that will now recommend news articles based on one’s web content consumption patterns, time spent, and personal interests. The company said that [...]
SEOUL, July 20 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a study conducted by a team of scientists from the National Cancer Center’s Department of Cancer Control Policy, press releases in South Korea often include exaggerated or inaccurate information regarding cancer, based on an ‘Extended Parallel Process Model’ that focuses on human psychology in communications studies. A research [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) – We’re entering the era of virtual reality. Surrounded by hundreds of entertainment devices that stimulate multiple senses at once, reading, a single-sense experience, may seem mundane. However, a recent study has shown otherwise, revealing that news readers prefer text over video for their online news consumption. The study was [...]