SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The brutal murder of a man by his father using a homemade firearm in Incheon’s Songdo district has reignited alarm in South Korea over the growing availability of online content teaching how to make illegal weapons. The incident has amplified calls for tighter regulation of do-it-yourself (DIY) gun and [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram saw the largest increase among South Korean users in their teens and 20s among all social media apps in the last 12 months, data showed Tuesday. Mobile app tracker Wiseapp conducted a survey of Android and iOS users over 10 years of age, [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ social networking service (SNS) use dipped for the first time in 2019, amid the waning popularity of sharing platforms, such as Facebook, data showed Monday. According to the data from the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), 47.7 percent of people surveyed used SNS last year, down [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A “Convenience Store-gram” account, a newly coined phrase combining convenience store and Instagram, appeared on social media recently. It is an account where consumers post reviews and photos of convenience store products. On top of this, the account has had a huge ripple effect on social media with a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — With the death of 25-year-old singer-actress Sulli, whose legal name is Choi Jin-ri, concerns are spreading over widespread malicious comments on the Internet. In particular, many people who post insulting messages on the Internet, using embarrassing expressions, are not criminals who usually commit crimes, but ordinary people that we [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Data helps us understand many things about ourselves, but interpreting this data is still within the human purview, says Choi Jae-won, a big data expert and director of Daumsoft. He claimed that analysis and interpretation take on different processes, because “analysis is scientific, while interpretation solely relies on human [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Harmful suicide-related information was found to be easily accessible by users on social media websites, particularly on Instagram, where the greatest number of posts regarding such information was found. The Ministry of Health and Welfare in association with police officials and the Korea Suicide Prevention Center said yesterday that [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — BigHit Entertainment, the managing company of the boyband sensation BTS, has announced that it is taking strong legal action against Internet users who have posted malicious comments about the band, which recently topped the Billboard Charts. BigHit posted the announcement on the BTS fan page website last Friday. Some [...]
SUWON, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — A number of cases have arisen recently in which law enforcement agencies have asked social media websites headquartered overseas to assist with their investigations. The purpose of these types of requests is typically to uncover the identity of a social media user posting controversial materials online. As in this [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Young women tend to suffer more from social media fatigue than their male counterparts, largely because they put more effort into maintaining it, according to a university thesis on Friday. The research cited in the thesis by Dr. Lee Eun-ji of Korea University in Seoul was conducted on 177 [...]