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Streaming Industry’s Content Battle: Shifting Tides in User Preferences

Streaming Industry’s Content Battle: Shifting Tides in User Preferences

SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – In the past three months, the competition for second place within the streaming video service industry has been fervent. There’s a noticeable trend where user preferences are heavily influenced by the original content released at any given time, creating what seems like a content battle. Based on recent Nielsen data, [...]

Efforts Underway to Develop a Platform that Can Shorten New Material Development Period

Efforts Underway to Develop a Platform that Can Shorten New Material Development Period

SEOUL, April 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean scientists are accelerating efforts to develop a visualization and machine learning technology-based platform aimed at greatly shortening the new material development period. A research team from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology said Wednesday that it had developed a platform that employs artificial intelligence (AI) [...]

Gov’t Planning Comprehensive Health Information Platform

Gov’t Planning Comprehensive Health Information Platform

SEOUL, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The government plans to establish a platform that will enable users to check health-related information, including records on vaccination and medical treatment. The new ‘My Healthway’ platform is a system that gathers information on individuals’ health, including medical treatment records, life habits, physical strength and food consumption. Users will [...]

K-pop Industry to Compete over Online Platforms as Pandemic Drags On

K-pop Industry to Compete over Online Platforms as Pandemic Drags On

SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – The importance of online platforms is on the rise as K-pop fandom continues to grow worldwide, with businesses targeting fans with contact-free content instead of offline performances. Since last year, a paradigm shift is taking place among large entertainment agencies and IT businesses focusing on online platforms. The K-pop [...]

Gov’t to Connect Platforms with Other Industries to Boost Innovative Growth

Gov’t to Connect Platforms with Other Industries to Boost Innovative Growth

SEJONG, Jun. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government plans to speed up the process of innovative growth by creating a multidisciplinary network that connects the platform economy, including artificial intelligence (AI), data, and hydrogen economies, with other industries. The government aims to first build the foundation for various platform economies and move on [...]

LINE, the Best Way to Communicate in Thailand

LINE, the Best Way to Communicate in Thailand

SEOUL, Oct. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Naver’s global messenger ‘LINE’ is dominating mobile communications in Thailand with the lion’s share of the mobile messenger market. According to Naver, there are currently 33 million LINE users in Thailand. Considering that the country’s total population is 68 million and that 63 percent of Thais own a smartphone, [...]

Mobile Solution “Cocoa-M” to Be Marketed in China

Mobile Solution “Cocoa-M” to Be Marketed in China

SEOUL, South Korea, Oct 02 (Korea Bizwire) – Cocoa-M, the mobile automation solution developed by Cocoa-Studio, will be marketed in China. The company said this on October 2 by launching a Chinese language website (http://cocoam.cn) and setting an ambitious plan to take on the Chinese mobile solution market. According to Cocoa-Studio, the future for the Chinese mobile [...]