SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans’ social networking service (SNS) use dipped for the first time in 2019, amid the waning popularity of sharing platforms, such as Facebook, data showed Monday. According to the data from the Korea Information Society Development Institute (KISDI), 47.7 percent of people surveyed used SNS last year, down [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Global online social networking service (SNS) Twitter Inc. aims to make more people participate in “public conversation” in South Korea, the company’s chief said Friday. “We believe public conversation influences and drives society,” CEO Jack Patrick Dorsey told reporters in Seoul, adding that the company is focusing on making [...]
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, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KakaoStory, a photo-sharing service operated by Daum Kakao, was the most popular social networking service (SNS) in South Korea last year, a poll showed Tuesday, outpacing Facebook and other global platforms. According to the survey conducted by Hankook Research on 9,381 people aged between 13 and 69, 51.8 percent [...]