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S. Korea’s Online Shopping Sales Surge 20.1 pct On-Year in Q4

S. Korea’s Online Shopping Sales Surge 20.1 pct On-Year in Q4

SEJONG, Jan. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s online shopping sales surged 20.1 percent on-year during the fourth quarter of 2014 with stellar growth in purchases through mobile gadgets, a government report showed Thursday. Total transactions during the three month period reached 12.74 trillion won (US$11.73 billion), up from 10.6 trillion won a year earlier [...]

Video Study Reveals Consumer Device-Shifting Patterns as TV Consumption Fragments Across Smartphones, Tablets and PCs

Video Study Reveals Consumer Device-Shifting Patterns as TV Consumption Fragments Across Smartphones, Tablets and PCs

Ooyala’s Q3 Global Video Index Highlights Monetization Opportunities for Broadcasters Across the Globe; Share of Mobile and Tablet Viewing Increases 400 Percent in Two Years   SANTA CLARA, CA, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Ooyala, a Telstra subsidiary and the leading innovator in premium video publishing, analytics and monetization, today issued its Q3 2014 Global [...]

Huawei Lowers Price of X3 in Korean Market

Huawei Lowers Price of X3 in Korean Market

SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Less than two months after its release, Huawei Technologies is dropping the price of its budget X3 smartphone by nearly 40 percent, offering a 200,000-won-discount to local customers in a move indicative of the Chinese vendor’s struggling ‘smartphone push’ in Korea. Media Log, a local distributor and affiliate of [...]

New Law to Bring about Sea Change in the Korean Smartphone Market

New Law to Bring about Sea Change in the Korean Smartphone Market

SEOUL, Sep. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean smartphone market, once considered a “graveyard” of foreign brands, is showing signs of a sea change ahead. In time for the mobile phone handset retail structure improvement law taking effect from October 1, overseas phone brands such as Apple, Sony, and Huawei are getting ready to put [...]

Korea Leads the World in Flexible Smartphone-related Patents

Korea Leads the World in Flexible Smartphone-related Patents

SEOUL, Sep. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone designs are rapidly evolving toward flexible curved shapes. With 2012 as the watershed, the center of gravity in flexible smartphone development efforts has definitely moved to Korea. According to the Korea Intellectual Property Office on September 22, the number of patents related to flexible smartphone has increased by [...]