SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Nine out of 10 young smartphone users in their teens and 20s opted for an Android phone as their initial smartphone, but over half of them eventually transitioned to iPhone smartphones. According to the report by industry tracker Counterpoint Research, about 85 percent of Korean smartphone users under the [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) — One in 3 South Koreans users of online streaming services prefer subscription plans without advertisements, a survey showed Tuesday. Local pollster Open Survey conducted a survey of 3,000 adults, with 32 percent of respondents expressing a preference against watching advertisements on streaming platforms, even if the subscription fee was [...]
SEOUL, June 6 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of smartphone users on 5G mobile networks had topped 30 million as of April for the first time since the service was commercialized in 2019, data showed Tuesday. The total number of 5G users reached 30.02 million in April, accounting for 38.1 percent of the total 78.79 [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Streaming service users in the U.S. accessed Korean video content the most after American content, a survey showed Sunday. The Korea Communications Commission and the Korea Broadcast Advertising Corp. analyzed 2,015 American users accessing Korean content, which showed that 90.4 percent of them accessed U.S. content in the last [...]
SEOUL, March 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Microsoft Corp.’s search engine Bing is enjoying global popularity on the back of its integration of Open AI’s technology, and South Korea is no exception, data showed Sunday. The nation’s search engine influx rate (market share in search) stood at 62.8 percent for Naver, 31.4 percent for Google and [...]
SEOUL, March 21 (Korea Bizwire) — One out of three South Koreans have tried artificial intelligence (AI)-based chatbot system ChatGPT, and the level of reliability on the outcomes was relatively high, a poll showed Monday. According to a survey of 1,016 adults from across the country conducted by the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry, [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite a police investigation of an illegal streaming site “noonoo TV,” the number of users of the site is increasing, primarily thanks to the so-called the Streisand effect, the act of trying to suppress information but simply making it more widespread as a result. A consultative body consisting of [...]
SEOUL, March 10 (Korea Bizwire) — If Netflix introduces a policy imposing additional charges on account sharing for the Korean market, a large portion of its users would stop using it, a survey showed Thursday. The Korea Press Foundation conducted a questionnaire survey of 1,000 local Netflix users aged from their 20s to 50s. The [...]
SEOUL, March 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of Facebook users in South Korea fell to a record low last month as a growing number of young people opted to use Instagram and other social media platforms, industry data showed Thursday. Facebook had a combined 9.79 million South Korean monthly active users (MAU) on the [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of monthly users of the U.S. social media network Facebook, once the most popular social media service for Korean users, has been on a downward trend for several years. Facebook’s domestic monthly active users (MAU), based on data from both Android and iOS devices, stood at 10,056,845 [...]