SEOUL, Nov. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Where Trump goes, his Twitter feed will follow, as the U.S. president has left a running diary of his stops in Japan and South Korea through a series of tweets. With the South Korean leg of his journey at a close, Trump heads to Bejiing, prompting curious observers to [...]
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – Sending tweets up to 280 characters is now a possibility for all users, though Twitter has stated Korean, Chinese and Japanese messages will be sticking to the original 140-character limit. On November 7, an announcement detailing the change was posted on Twitter’s official blog. What is eye-catching is [...]
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, Jul. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Data published from Twitter earlier this week suggests some users have sent tweets about South Korean boy band EXO from North Korea, a country where enjoying South Korean pop culture could land you in jail. Over 11 million tweets were made about the popular South Korean boy band around [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Korea Bizwire) – Twitter often offers the best reflection of current issues, whether they be social, political, tech trends or celebrity gossip. So what were some of the keywords on Twitter that were most popular among Koreans in 2016? According to Twitter Korea on Tuesday, tweets related to the Choi Soon-sil scandal [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been 70 days since the Gangnam Station murder, which sparked the ongoing controversy over gender crimes in South Korea. The recent issue of a voice actress from the online game “Closer” being fired for wearing a ‘feminist’ t-shirt has started another fiery battle of the sexes on social [...]
SEOUL, June 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s Fair Trade Commission (FTC) revealed Sunday that it has made adjustments to what it deemed as unfair clauses in the terms of service of four major social media platforms – Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and KakaoStory. The four social media platforms did not clarify, in their terms of service, [...]
SINGAPORE, Jun.4 (Korea Bizwire) - Twitter and KKBOX, Asia’s leading music streaming brand, are working to expand the appreciation of Chinese pop music, or Cpop (#Cpop), to a global audience. KKBOX is creating Cpop content on their official Twitter account (@KKBOX), including weekly live Twitter Q&A interviews with Cpop artists, autographed video clips from Cpop musicians and producers [...]
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, Nov. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Facebook, Twitter and Google will now have to examine illegal content that has been flagged by the Korea Communication Standards Commission (KCSC). The three American services, which are also widely used among Koreans, only delete content when a report is submitted from a user. However, from now on, content [...]