SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s personal computer (PC) market in the second quarter expanded slightly from a year earlier, a report showed Friday, on the back of rising demand for notebooks. Domestic PC shipments stood at 1.5 million units in the April-June period, up 3.1 percent from a year ago, according to [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s personal computer (PC) market expanded to the largest in 10 years in the first quarter of 2021, industry data showed Wednesday, due to robust demand for online education and remote working amid the pandemic. Domestic PC shipments stood at 1.89 million units in the January-March period, up [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s personal computer (PC) market grew more than 15 percent last year, industry data showed Wednesday, due to the rise of online education and remote working amid the pandemic. Domestic PC shipments totaled 5.26 million units in 2020, up 15.7 percent from a year ago, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s onerous corporate culture is slowly making progress. LG Uplus, one of the three major telecommunications companies in Korea, became the first IT company to implement a “PC-off” policy. As the name suggests, the policy forcibly shuts down all access to employee computers at 6:30 p.m. sharp, 30 minutes [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey by the Korea Communications Commission revealed the growing importance of smartphones, with 55.5 percent of 7,385 respondents (aged 13 and above) considering the device to be an “indispensable medium”, far surpassing those who chose TV (38.6 percent) as their answer. The gap between the two devices [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The use of mobile phones and computers by North Koreans declined from a year earlier as the communist country has tightened its control over people in recent years, a report showed Tuesday. The usage of mobile phones by North Koreans reached 46.4 percent in 2016, down from 55.5 percent [...]