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 [...]
BUSAN, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Busan residents are posting pictures of themselves voluntarily picking up neighborhood trash as part of the trashtag challenge that has become popular on social media. Trashtag, combining the terms trash and tag, is an online campaign encouraging netizens to post pictures of their neighborhood before and after the voluntary [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Several major cosmetics companies were found guilty for misinforming consumers after paying influencers on social networks like Instagram to promote their products. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) ordered seven companies including AmorePacific Corp., LG Household and Health Care Ltd, and L’Oreal Korea to pay 269 million won (US$228,740) in [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Prior to the launch of police investigations into those suspected of committing a crime, victims have been making use of social media to bring attention to their own cases, posting photos of suspects on the Internet. A case in point is an assault that occurred in Changwon, South Gyeongsang [...]
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 [...]