SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — As the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced that it would compensate a foreign tourist afflicted with the MERS virus in Korea with US$ 3,000, Koreans citizens on SNS are strongly criticizing the government’s policy, saying that the government should firsthand spend its money to stop the virus, [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Korean experts are saying that the current fear over MERS among members of the Korean public is unjustified, as groundless rumors about the viral disease are spreading on SNS and Internet communities. Experts are only asking the public to be cautious about personal hygiene, and recommend wearing masks and [...]
INCHEON, Korea, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Incheon Metropolitan City plans to launch a “dementia partner” program in a bid to change negative perception related to the chronic disease. On May 5, the city government announced that it would recruit “dementia partners.” Anyone who is interested in the disease can join the program, and the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of ten mobile device users have purchased a product more than once through one-click mobile payment systems in the last six months. According to a report by DMC Media, a digital advertising company, 72.1 percent of 948 mobile device users polled have used one-click payment services which [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans keep tracks of their SNS channels for fun and information seeking, according to a paper written by Lee Jeong-kwon, a doctoral student at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Lee conducted a study concerning 248 individuals who were using opened SNS and closed, private SNS last year. When asked [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency is set to establish an SNS scanning system to detect emergencies or traffic jams in the second half of the year, said agency officials on April 2. The agency will be developing a system that detects keywords such as accident, traffic and bumper-to-bumper on Twitter and Facebook and other [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Gimbap has been selected as the most popular Korean food by Japanese. According to the Korea Tourism Organization’s survey on the top 10 Korean popular foods in Japan, gimbap ranked first. Some 80,000 SNS users participated in the survey. Gimbap is made of steamed white rice (bap) and various other [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – When you google the keywords ‘Internet’ and ‘to be famous’, you come across approximately 500 million search results related to the theme. It is impossible to type the phrase ‘to be famous,’ without seeing suggestions pop-up, like ‘how to be famous on Instagram,’ ‘how to be famous on Facebook,’ [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The ubiquity of mobile devices including smartphones has contributed to changes in the way Koreans make menu choices when they eat out, as more and more Koreans are searching for food information online. According to a recent survey on “eating out trends in 2014” jointly conducted by the Korea [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of SNS among the whole time spent on the 50 most used apps in Korea is 40.3 percent, according to an announcement from Ranky.com, a market research company, on January 16. The company analyzed app usage times for the 50 most used apps by 60,000 mobile device users [...]