SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A fever of deleting the Chinese-owned global social media platform TikTok is sweeping across the globe amid U.S. pressure to ban the app for data privacy violations and security vulnerabilities. In contrast to such a global move, however, the number of TikTok users is actually growing in South Korea. [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The growing number of South Koreans using shared mobility services as an alternative for public transportation following the spread of the coronavirus is causing a different kind of concern amidst efforts to contain the pandemic. South Korea’s shared mobility services are represented by Seoul Bike, a shared public bicycle [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 2.2 million South Koreans have subscribed to a pilot open banking service in less than one month after its launch, data showed Thursday. Users of the new service, which was launched Oct. 30, numbered 2.27 million as of Tuesday after exceeding the 1 million mark in just [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Netflix Inc. had an estimated 2 million paid viewers in South Korea as of the end of October, more than doubling from a year earlier, data showed Tuesday. South Korean subscribers to the U.S. video streaming platform numbered 810,000 in October 2018, according to the data from industry tracker [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — It has been six months since 5G was commercialized, and many users are still not satisfied with the service. According to a survey of 180 5G users by three civic groups including the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, 76.6 percent said they were dissatisfied, including those who were very [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of car-sharing service users who can borrow and return cars has increased more than 40-fold over the past five years. According to data submitted by the Korea Road Traffic Authority to Rep. Lee Hu-sam of the ruling Democratic Party, the number of users of car-sharing services increased [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean users subscribing to the U.S. video streaming platform Netflix Inc. has more than quadrupled to surpass the 1.8 million mark, industry data showed Friday. Netflix is estimated to have 1.86 million paid active streaming subscribers in the country as of July, compared with 420,000 [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The combined time spent on the photo and video-sharing platform Instagram by South Korean Android users surged by 73 percent on-year in May, industry data showed Tuesday. They spent a total of 26 billion minutes using Instagram last month, compared with 15 billion minutes during the same period a [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of South Korean users subscribing to U.S. video streaming platform Netflix Inc. has steadily increased to surpass the 1.5 million mark, mainly on the back of the popularity of original local content, industry data showed Tuesday. Netflix is estimated to have 1.53 million paid active streaming subscribers [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Electronics Co.’s payment tool, Samsung Pay, stood as South Korea’s top transaction app in October, data showed Tuesday, with the number of Android-based users rising 58 percent on-year. According to the data compiled by industry tracker WiseApp, Samsung Pay was the most popular financial application for the month, [...]