JEJU, Nov.18 (Korea Bizwire) – Bringing instant food to school will be banned in all regions of Jeju Island starting next year, and a smartphone ban will be implemented in 2017. The Jeju Education Office is taking extreme measures to lower the obesity rate of students, which is the highest in the nation, and improve [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. trumped rivals in the global smartphone market in the third quarter, while its annual sales are likely to drop on-year largely due to stiffer competition from Chinese makers, a report said Wednesday. Samsung, the world’s top smartphone maker, retained its top spot [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – To help solve missing children cases, a technology in which one can register a child’s fingerprint with a smartphone, and also check the identity of a child that has been found through a smartphone will be developed. The National Police Agency announced that it will be embarking on [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean smartphone users change their devices every 14 months, with teens changing their handsets in less than a year, a poll showed Wednesday. According to the survey conducted by the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), South Koreans on average used their handsets for 19 months, but those [...]
SEOUL, July 3 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea has been picked as a “Mobile First” nation, with a significant number of smartphone users taking advantage of their mobile devices for Internet searches, online purchases and watching videos. According to Google’s “Consumer Barometer” analyzing internet usage patterns across the globe, 60 percent of Korean Internet users preferred [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Although studies have recently shown that children’s use of smartphones and tablet PCs could have a harmful effect on their growth and development, educational IT devices are becoming increasingly popular among Korean parents. According to Woongjin Thinkbig’s report on April 9, Woongjin Book Club, the company’s ebook service package [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Flip phones, once considered obsolete due to the onslaught of ubiquitous smartphones, are still going strong, because of the March back-to-school demand from students as well as the former smartphone users who went back to simpler mobile phones. According to industry sources on March 3, the share of [...]