SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant internet portal, is positively reviewing making inroads into the Japanese search engine market despite two previous failures, the company’s executive said Wednesday. Naver first entered the Japanese search engine market by establishing Naver Japan but exited the country in 2005. Naver [...]
SEJONG, Jun. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport plans to organize the Construction Information System Innovation Task Force on Wednesday to introduce a new service that uses augmented reality (AR) technology to provide information on various buildings to the public. The task force will be headed by Kim Sang-mun, a [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The way in which Naver is dealing with mobile searches for housing has ruffled feathers, as accusations that it is marginalizing its competitors’ websites in favor of its own services are increasing. According to industry sources, the tension between Naver and its clients-cum-competitors started to sizzle in May of this [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean search engine giant Naver has retracted plans to update its website layout after facing criticism for blatantly favoring its online shopping affiliates, which many called an unethical business practice. Most of the criticism is surrounding Naver’s newly proposed website layout, in which online shopping malls listed as the [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — As the quantity of search activities on mobile web platforms has surpassed that on PC versions in Korea, Korean web portals are re-designing their mobile platforms to be more personalized. Naver has introduced a ‘tag-search’ service for its mobile platform, which is based on an algorithm named ‘I-rank.’ The [...]