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 [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean gaming giant Nexon Co. has announced plans to terminate its racing game “KartRider,” launched in 2004, provoking protests from gamers. Some KartRider users on Thursday parked a mobile billboard truck displaying their protests against Nexon’s decision in front of the company’s headquarters in the Seoul suburb of [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The fire that broke out at a data center last weekend has resulted in a plunging number of KakaoTalk users while other chat applications have seen a major inflow of new users, a mobile app tracker said Tuesday. WiseApp Retail Goods conducted a survey of smartphone users over 10 [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean metaverse users, which plunged after the lifting of social distancing rules earlier this year, started increasing again in late July. According to Mobile Index, the big data analysis unit of local data tracker IGAworks, the number of domestic weekly active users (WAU) for the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Despite the popularity of the term ‘metaverse’, only a few have tried out the virtual platform, a poll showed Thursday. Consumer Insight, a local consumer survey company, conducted a survey of 3,797 cellphone users in the country over 14 years of age, 82 percent of whom said they were aware [...]
SEOUL, July 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co. said Thursday that the number of devices registered in its SmartThings Find service that allows Galaxy device users to check the location of their devices or other personal belongings passed the 200 million mark. SmartThings Find is a location-finding service using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and [...]