SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Those aged over 40 are the primary clients for handsets provided by low-cost mobile carriers, industry data showed Friday. The budget mobile carriers called “thrift phone operators” refer to mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) that rent networks from the country’s three carriers: SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Crime in South Korea is on the rise, while the number of volunteers is continuously falling, according to a new report by Statistics Korea published yesterday. The surprising findings revealed that only 10.4 percent of individuals younger than fifteen participated in any type of volunteer work over the past [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Reading the morning paper on the bus or subway may soon become a thing of the past. A study by the Korea Information Strategy Development Institute revealed that 86.3 percent of the survey participants used cell phones on public transportation as their favorite go-to medium for killing time – which [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Only one out of ten adults in Korea makes do without a smartphone these days. Based on market research from Gallup Korea, the penetration rate of smartphones in Korea has reached 89 percent. Starting with the iPhone 3Gs in November 2009, the first smartphone launched in Korea, the percentage of [...]
GANGJIN, South Korea, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Gangjin County, located in South Jeolla Province, South Korea announced on July 13 that it began establishing a smartphone announcement system in 2013, for which infrastructure has already built throughout Maryang-myeon, Sinjeon-myeon, Daegu-myeong, and Doam-myeon. Conventional announcement systems required village leaders to use a microphone and an amplifier [...]
SEOUL, June 20 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of patients suffering from a herniated cervical disc has increased by 24 percent over the past five years. Smartphone use is considered one of the main reasons behind the phenomenon. According to an analysis of the National Health Insurance Service’s insurance payment data, the number of patients who [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The names of the major smartphones that will be released later this year are stirring up interest in IT circles. Phone Arena, an IT website, announced that Samsung may name its next Note generation “7” for a synergy effect with its Galaxy S7, the best-selling smartphone of the year. A [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Ministry of the Interior revealed yesterday that it will implement new mobile systems for social affairs. Over the course of a three-year plan, up to 3,000 social affairs services will become available from smartphones. Social affairs services include the issuance of various types of documents such as resident [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 25 (Korea Bizwire) - Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday it started the mass production of a 256-gigabyte (GB) memory chip for high-end smartphones, less than a year after it kicked off the 128-GB model. The South Korean tech giant said the new Universal Flash Storage (UFS) boasts speed that is nine times faster than [...]
Research indicates that smartphones are thought of as a necessity from teens to those in their 40s. (Image : Yonhap) SEOUL, Jan.12 (Korea Bizwire) – Research indicates that smartphones are thought of as a necessity from teens to those in their 40s. Those over 50 picked the TV to be the most necessary media in [...]