SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent study, South Koreans devoted over 100 billion minutes to YouTube in the past month. This data, collected through a survey of a smartphone user sample by Wiseapp, a service specializing in app and retail analytics, reveals a significant uptick in YouTube usage. Comparing figures from October, [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Facebook, the U.S. social media network operated by Meta Platforms Inc., has seen an over 25 percent decline in the number of monthly active users (MAU) in South Korea across the past two years, an industry analysis report showed Friday. According to Mobile Index, the big data analysis unit [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are spending more time on mobile apps, with their average daily usage hours of such apps breaking the five hour mark in the third quarter of this year for the first time in history, an industry tracker said. The number of app downloads worldwide totaled 36 billion [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Almost all of the state coronavirus relief funds that were given out in card form have been spent, and half of the money was spent mostly on dining out and grocery shopping, the interior ministry said Wednesday. The government handed out the relief funds totaling 14.3 trillion won (US$12.27 [...]