SEOUL, Apr. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Following the inter-Korea summit on Friday, sentiments reflecting hopes of peace in the Korean peninsula are pouring out from the public. The government’s social media accounts as well as the public forum on the Blue House website were flooded with posts that reflected the rosy expectations of unification. As [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Savvy social media use can lead candidates to victory come election time, according to a new study. The new report released by the National Assembly Research Service revealed that President Moon Jae-in used live broadcasting features on social media much more than other candidates during his victorious campaign in [...]
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, Feb. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of South Koreans are relying on social media to air their grievances, more so than for positive feelings, a new study has found. Artificial intelligence-based big data analysis released by Daumsoft on Monday revealed that more South Koreans expressed their personal feelings on social media last year [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent scandal involving a Seoul bus driver and his supposed role in separating a mother from her young daughter has many contemplating the role social media plays in focusing national attention on public issues. According to Daumsoft, an AI-based big data analysis firm, there had been 223,737 mentions [...]
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, Jul. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — As the controversy surrounding an undercooked patty that allegedly gave a four-year-old girl severe kidney damage continues, negative words related to fears over burgers are increasingly being used on social media, big data suggests. According to data released by AI-based big data analytics company Daumsoft, burgers were predominantly mentioned [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) – South Koreans spent 5.6 billion minutes on Facebook last month, topping the list amongst all social media apps, according to the latest report from WiseApp. The app analytics company based its study on 23,663 Android users in the country, excluding iPhone users. Following Facebook was Naver’s Band, a mobile [...]
NEW YORK, NY, Mar. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Chartbeat, the leading content intelligence platform for publishers, together with CrowdTangle, a Facebook-owned social analytics tool, today announced a global expansion of their Offsite Social analytics offering which will result in richer social metrics, broader global monitoring capabilities and increased accessibility for thousands of newsrooms around the [...]