SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of the Interior and Safety said Thursday it will enhance the mobile membership registration and booking procedures for public facilities and services frequently utilized by foreigners. Most foreigners who visit South Korea for short periods, whether for business, travel, or language studies, do not possess domestic credit [...]
SEOUL, March 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Marketing campaigns and administrative service initiatives targeting office workers during rush hour are becoming increasingly popular. The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that it would be offering free labor counseling services at 22 major subway stations during workers’ evening commute. The program will provide certified labor lawyers who offer one-on-one [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech companies are increasingly incorporating ChatGPT into other services. Healthcare platform Gooddoc released a ChatGPT-based health artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot service on Tuesday. The new service utilizes ChatGPT to respond to questions related to health and medical procedures within just one second, enhancing utility. Software education startup [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech firms are cutting off support for various add-on services to focus on their primary services and overcome the current economic downturn. Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s largest messenger app KakaoTalk, shut down a subscription platform service last month. This service was launched in June [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The recent massive disruption of Kakao Corp.’s dominant chat messenger KakaoTalk and other related services has affected nearly all sectors of South Korea, ranging from social networking and business to finance and transportation. It took about four days for the company to fully repair damaged servers and normalize all [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Thus far, users have had to go through a complex process to cancel services subscribed to through in-app payments on Apple’s App Store. From now on, however, it will be possible to cancel such services simply with one click. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC), South Korea’s telecommunications regulator, said [...]
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SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — New services are taking care of ‘cumbersome tasks’ on behalf of those who want to stay indoors following the coronavirus outbreak. Fitco introduced a service in November that comes up with various recommendations on fashion, picked by professional stylists based on the ‘Style Quiz’ questionnaire that asks customers some [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — To better cope with the changing face of the retail market, super supermarket (SSM) chains are strengthening their fresh food sections and launching near-distance delivery services. Homeplus Express, run by South Korean hypermarket chain operator Homeplus Co., transformed about one third of its roughly 300 outlets nationwide to ones [...]
SEOUL, April 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean baseball fans are increasingly using online means to watch games as the coronavirus continues to rage on. With the 2021 season of the Korea Baseball Organization (KBO) begins Saturday, tech companies are releasing a series of broadcasting services with special features to meet audience demand. Online gaming [...]