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 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Koreans keep tracks of their SNS channels for fun and information seeking, according to a paper written by Lee Jeong-kwon, a doctoral student at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Lee conducted a study concerning 248 individuals who were using opened SNS and closed, private SNS last year. When asked [...]
SEOUL, April 6 (Korea Bizwire) — The National Police Agency is set to establish an SNS scanning system to detect emergencies or traffic jams in the second half of the year, said agency officials on April 2. The agency will be developing a system that detects keywords such as accident, traffic and bumper-to-bumper on Twitter and Facebook and other [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – What happened on Twitter in South Korea this year? What was most tweeted in 2014? It is reported that the top twitter moment of 2014 in Korea was the Sewol Ferry disaster on April 16. Twitter released its annual list of the tweets that attracted the most attention. According [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — On September 25, major social networking services such as Twitter and KakaoTalk were abuzz with postings and videos of a naked woman walking on a busy street near the Seolleung subway station in Seoul’s Gangnam. According to Gangnam Police Station on the 28th, the person who posted the message first time [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – Twitter Korea launched new types of advertising aimed for a bigger pie in South Korea’s increasingly lucrative advertising market — in the mobile sector in particular. Twitter Korea hosted the #Twitter4Brands event on August 28, bringing together leading Korean marketers, to demonstrate new marketing and examples of successful uses of Twitter. [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 23, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – A “Yellow Ribbon Campaign” is spreading out among Koreans who yearn for safe returns of the missing passengers who were on board of the capsized ferry “Sewol.” The campaign started with an online posting in a community forum site, which urged people to put up a picture [...]
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[Related Article] Many Koreans Feel “SNS Infringes on Privacy” (Korea Bizwire, April 17) As personal information leakage takes place frequent recently, seven out of ten Koreans have expressed their concerns over privacy infringement from social network services such as Facebook and Twitter. According to Alba Heaven, Korea’s online part-time job portal, which conducted a survey [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 17, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – As personal information leakage takes place frequent recently, seven out of ten Koreans have expressed their concerns over privacy infringement from social network services such as Facebook and Twitter. According to Alba Heaven, Korea’s online part-time job portal, which conducted a survey on its 2,205 members, 71.5 [...]
SEOUL, Korea, Mar 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Smartphone technology is now no longer limited to voice and text messaging. Since the introduction of the Apple iPhone in 2009, things have changed for good. For the past four years, there has been the so-called “Data Big Bang” in which people’s data traffic usage has risen in [...]