SEOUL, Mar. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Koreans are using Instagram, the wildly popular photo-sharing app and service, according to new research. The study conducted by artificial intelligence-based big data analysis firm Daumsoft revealed the number of posts uploaded on Instagram jumped nearly 240 percent between 2015 and last year. The number [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – With a significant number of South Koreans feeling overwhelmed and stressed out by an overload of mobile messages and incessant social media notifications, temporarily shutting off from the social media world, also known as a ‘digital detox’, is becoming a popular coping mechanism. Data released on Monday by AI-based big [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Company workers use about three social networking services (SNS) on average, mostly to get and share information, but a majority of them feel exhausted by unwanted information and marketing that come with the services, a poll showed Wednesday. Hunet, a provider of career education, surveyed 821 people working for [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — A disturbing number of posts encouraging suicide by introducing possible methods and suicide-pact recruiting have been identified in internet communities and on SNS. According to the Ministry of Health and Welfare on August 24, the Korea Suicide Prevention Center and Nuricops, the cybercrime monitoring organization affiliated with the National [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The photo- and video-sharing platform Instagram said Thursday its monthly active users in South Korea surpassed the 10 million mark for the first time in August. The feat came 17 months after the social media said its users in South Korea came to 6 million in March 2016. Instagram [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The labor ministry plans to draw up guidelines on the after-work use of mobile messaging and other forms of social networking services, an official said Thursday, amid growing complaints about companies giving work-related orders via social media during off hours. A growing number of people have complained about getting [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Lego Korea Co., the local unit of the Danish toymaker, has launched a mobile application for kids here to provide a safe social networking platform for the tech-savvy generation, the company said Monday. The app, available in the Google Play Store and the Apple’s App Store, allows users to [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans pride themselves on the world’s highest smartphone penetration rate at 96 percent. So which social networking platforms are most popular among Korean smartphone users? According to a recent study by market research firm Nielsen Koreanclick, 91.7 percent of mobile device users (Android smartphones only) made regular use [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Twitter often offers the best reflection of current issues, whether they be social, political, tech trends or celebrity gossip. So what were some of the keywords on Twitter that were most popular among Koreans in 2016? According to Twitter Korea on Tuesday, tweets related to the Choi Soon-sil scandal [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A large number of social media users called for South Korea to acquire nuclear arms after North Korea detonated its fifth nuclear device Friday, a growing sign that the public wants change in the government’s non-proliferation policy stance. The spike in people calling for independent nuclear capabilities is also [...]