SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp., an internet company that operates the country’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Friday it will provide its map tools to local game developers from the first half of this year to help them produce a megahit like Pokemon Go. The move was disclosed by Namkoong Whon, the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The Pokémon GO frenzy is just beginning in South Korea, but not everyone is happy with the game, with players living outside urban areas complaining about a lack of easily accessible PokéStops. PokéStops are an essential component of Pokémon GO, places where players can freely collect items like Poké [...]
SEJONG, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Two South Korean public institutes said Thursday that augmented reality and virtual reality are two of the most promising industries in the next eight years. A joint analysis by the Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology and the Korea Institute for Industrial Economics and Trade showed that augmented reality [...]
CHUNCHEON, South Korea, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) – There is no need for an explanation – one should not play Pokémon GO while behind the wheel. Korea is going through the same troubles that other countries, which launched the AR game six months earlier, struggled with – trespassing and driving while playing – with growing [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Niantic’s augmented reality game Pokémon GO has set a new record in Korea, becoming the mobile game that attracted the most users among Android smartphones. According to WiseApp, a mobile app analytics company, an estimated 6.98 million people used Pokémon GO in the first week (January 23 to 29) [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – It is long overdue. Six months after its global launch, Niantic’s Pokémon Go has finally come to South Korea. The augmented reality game kicked off with a good start. Local videogame stocks soared Tuesday over market anticipation, and social networking services were rampant with thrills and excitement. App analytics [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent survey revealed that Pokémon Go would be the dominant summer holiday pastime among Korean millennials, assuring that the game’s hype stays strong. Hotels.com Korea, an online hotel reservation platform, surveyed 500 millennials (born between the early 1980s and 2000s), 75 percent of whom replied that they will [...]
ULSAN, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Pokémon Go may not make its official launch in Korea for a while, but its popularity here continues with fans flocking to areas across the peninsula where a GPS glitch in the game has allowed for its operation. Ulsan’s Ganjeol Cape is among the locations that have accumulated hundreds, [...]
SEOUL, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The official launch date of the sensational augmented-reality (AR) smartphone game ‘Pokemon Go’ in South Korea will be determined early next month as the Korean government will decide whether Google Maps – the core of Nintendo’s popular game – will be permitted to make use of detailed map data in Korea. [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Pokémon Go has not been officially launched in Korea, but thanks to a GPS glitch Pokémon fans from across the country are flocking to Gangwon Province’s coastal city of Sokcho. With the city’s tourist population surging, convenience stores are reporting record sales. According to CU, a convenience store franchise, [...]