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 [...]
SEOUL, June 17 (Korea Bizwire) – 89 percent of South Koreans use social media, with the country surpassing Taiwan to rank second in terms of social media usage around the world, data showed Wednesday. Market researcher DMC Media reported that according to a survey conducted by global consulting firm We Are Social Singapore, 89.3 percent [...]
SEOUL, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — On South Korean social media, public opinion about coronavirus vaccines appears to have changed from anticipation to anxiety, a recent study showed. The advertising agency KPR & Associates, Inc. analyzed about 720,000 cases of COVID-19-related social media big data for the period from February 2020 to January 2021. In [...]
DAEJEON, Jan. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Many people think of the trail surrounding Mount Jiri as a challenge that needs to be ‘completed’ while a trail that circles Seoul is perceived as a leisurely destination where people go out for a stroll and take photos on weekends. The National Institute of Forest Science announced Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s antitrust regulator said Monday that it will ban social media influencers from promoting a new product or service on their online platforms without disclosing their business ties with corporate sponsors. The Fair Trade Commission said its revised advertising guidelines will require influencers on social media platforms, such [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea will ban social media influencers from pitching a new product or service on their online platforms without disclosing their business ties with corporate sponsors, officials said Wednesday. The move comes amid controversy over some famous social media influencers’ involvement in the shady practice called “backdoor online advertising.” [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid the coronavirus outbreak, South Koreans are beginning to find more hope than fear. Despite hundreds of confirmed cases each day, South Koreans have been able to maintain hope. Tapacross, a local big data analyst, looked into some 4.6 million posts related to the coronavirus on online platforms such [...]