SEOUL, Feb. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Young South Koreans in their 20s use different social media platforms based on their political sentiment, a survey showed Tuesday. The National Youth Policy Institute conducted a survey of 2,214 people from 19 to 24 years of age, in which there were more progressives (52.5 percent) than conservatives (23.8 [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — When South Koreans talk about family online, they tend to share different types of information via social media channels, a government report said. The state-run Korean Institute for Healthy Family analyzed 26,994,344 data records uploaded on four social media channels from January 2017 to June 2022. In terms of [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Meltwater, a global leader in social and media intelligence, and We Are Social, the socially-led creative agency, have released Digital 2023, their latest annual report on social media and digital trends worldwide. Digital 2023 shows that the typical internet user globally has reduced their average daily internet use by 20 minutes over [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Seven out of 10 Korean consumers who subscribed to the accounts of social media influencers turned out to buy products after watching them, a survey has showed. According to the recent survey by the Korea Federation of Textile Industries of 653 consumers who subscribed to influencer accounts on social [...]
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Nearly eight out of 10 South Koreans believe social media leads to more political division, with nearly as many people saying social media makes it easier for people to manipulate others, a survey showed Tuesday. However, more than 60 percent of those surveyed said social media is still a [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Social media and online portal operators in South Korea urged users Sunday to refrain from spreading disturbing video footage or ungrounded information about the deadly stampede at Itaewon that killed over 150 people. Kakao, the operator of No. 1 online messenger KakaoTalk, made the call in a notice to [...]
SEOUL, June 22 (Korea Bizwire) — The millennial generation’s social media usage rate turned out to be higher than those of older and younger generations in South Korea, a survey showed Tuesday. The Korea Information Society Development Institute analyzed the Korea Media panel survey that was conducted with the participation of 4,171 households and 10,154 [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Election day in South Korea was marked by a plethora of red voting stamps on social media. As soon as polls opened in the presidential election on Wednesday, voters shared photos on Instagram, Facebook and other online communities to show that they had voted. Many of them took photos [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Heads of large companies are going beyond tradition to post personal remarks on their personal social media accounts. One of Shinsegae Group Vice Chairman Chung Yong-jin’s social media accounts is currently followed by 736,000 people. Chung posts photos of his everyday life, playing golf, cooking or introducing new products [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study has revealed that heavy snowfall is typically met with reactions of anxiety and frustration, rather than happiness and excitement, on social media. The National Disaster Management Research Institute conducted an analysis of 83.5 million tweets in the Korean language posted in January every year from 2013 [...]