SEOUL, March 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The science-fiction action blockbuster “Seobok” will be released simultaneously in theaters and via streaming next month, its distributor said Wednesday, after monthslong delays amid the novel coronavirus pandemic. “Starring Gong Yoo and Park Bo-gum, ‘Seobok’ will be released on April 15,” CJ ENM said in a press release. “It [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Global streaming giant Spotify Technology SA said Tuesday it launched its music streaming service in South Korea, the home market of K-pop. The service, which originally launched back in 2008, has more than 60 million songs and over 320 million users across 93 markets. The latest launch comes amid [...]
SEOUL, March 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Hey look, there’s baseball going on in South Korea. And even if you don’t live here, you can stream these games live and watch on demand. The global outbreak of the novel coronavirus has deprived baseball fans around the world of a chance to enjoy their annual ritual — [...]
LIMASSOL, CYPRUS, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – Play2Live, cybersports streaming platform, announces that users can assign interactive tasks to streamers in the game, “Fortnite”, and monitor their progress. This creates interactions between platform users, and forming an economy around the Level Up Coin (LUC) token as the only means of payment within the platform. Any [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) – The latest data from market analyst DMC Media has revealed that YouTube was still the most popular video streaming platform on mobile devices in South Korea, chosen by 42.8 percent of 1,000 study participants in April, which was up from the 38 percent observed last year. YouTube outstripped its [...]
SEOUL, May 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Online live video game streaming is taking the world by storm, as the idea of sharing and enjoying the experience of playing and watching games becomes increasingly popular, and the impact is being also felt in South Korea where eSports have a huge following. As demand for video game streaming [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean Internet users have increasingly streamed content instead of downloading them though wireless services, government data showed Wednesday, mainly on the back of the introduction of a long-term evolution (LTE) service based on fourth-generation (4G) wireless technology. Internet traffic from video streaming services and video-on-demand (VOD), such as [...]
SEOUL, June 24 (Korea Bizwire) – After months of rumors and speculation, Apple’s music streaming service, Apple Music, has made a big step forward to introducing its services in Korea. In contrast to the global popularity of music services like Spotify, Deezer, and Pandora, the Korean music market for music sales and streaming is dominated [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Eight out of 10 of smartphone users in Korea download music files and then listen to them instead of streaming music. ESTsoft, the company that provides the ALSong music player, revealed the results of a survey conducted on the consumption patterns of smartphone users. The survey was conducted online, and [...]