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 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – A large number of social media users called for South Korea to acquire nuclear arms after North Korea detonated its fifth nuclear device Friday, a growing sign that the public wants change in the government’s non-proliferation policy stance. The spike in people calling for independent nuclear capabilities is also [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Short messages that are popular on social media such as Facebook or Instagram are now being published as a book. Aurum, part of the Munhakdongne Publishing Group, recently published a book called “A Storytelling Woman” written by Cho Yumi. Cho has gained fame by posting short, poetic messages on Facebook [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) – Dozens of foreigners were taken on a municipally organized tour of Seoul on Tuesday, with every part of the journey being documented in real-time on social media. More than 20 people from countries all over the world, including China, Malaysia, Turkey and Russia, took part in the 2016 Global Seoul [...]
SEOUL, Jan 11 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been suggested that the reason China’s Xiaomi was able to grow into a successful international company in only five years was because of its efficient usage of social media. A recent report issued by the KT Economy and Management Research Center says that social media acted as [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook is the most popular social networking service (SNS) in South Korea this year, a poll showed Tuesday, outpacing other global and local platforms. According to a survey by market researcher DMC Media on 780 SNS users aged between 19 and 59, 59.8 percent picked Facebook as their most-used [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Despite a sluggish domestic economy, mobile advertising has rapidly grown in South Korea thanks to widespread usage of smartphones and advanced mobile platform, data showed Wednesday. Once regarded as uncharted territory, mobile ad spending is estimated at 940 billion won (US$798.3 million) this year, soaring about 1,800 times since [...]
BURLINGTON, Mass. June, 13, 2014 (Korea Bizwire)–Endurance International Group (EIGI), a leading provider of cloud-based platform solutions designed to help small and medium-sized businesses succeed online, today released findings from its Very Small Business (VSB) Exploration. 596 VSB subscribers within the total Endurance subscriber base completed the survey. Endurance surveyed its subscribers to test: How [...]