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 [...]
SEOUL, May 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of metaverse platform users has plunged after the easing of COVID-19 social distancing measures, putting the brake on the metaverse fever in South Korea, data showed Sunday. The number of weekly active users (WAU) for the metaverse application Roblox over the past week (May 9 to 15) [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of smartphone users on 5G mobile networks had topped 20 million as of November for the first time since the service was commercialized in 2019, data showed Monday. The total number of 5G users reached 20.19 million in November last year, accounting for around 28 percent of [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of smartphone users on 5G mobile networks had topped 19 million as of October, data showed Wednesday, as new smartphone launches boosted user growth in the latest generation networks. The total number of 5G users reached 19.38 million in October, accounting for around 27 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of weekly users on Disney+, the flagship streaming service of U.S. media giant Walt Disney Co., topped 1 million in less than a month since its launch here, a market research firm said Wednesday. The streaming service’s weekly users in South Korea reached 1.01 million from Nov. [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of users for Disney+, the flagship streaming service of U.S. media giant Walt Disney Co., is showing a downward trend after its launch in South Korea, due primarily to criticism over the quality of its captions and a lower user convenience compared to its competitors. Disney+’s daily [...]