SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean all-female group BLACKPINK has become the first K-pop group to top 1.5 billion views on YouTube with its music video for “Ddu-du Ddu-du,” its management agency said Wednesday. The 2018 hit broke the record at around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on YouTube, YG Entertainment said, around 15 months [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s YouTube users consider the spread of fake news to be the most serious issue among the social problems caused by the online video-sharing platform, a recent survey showed. The Korea Press Foundation conducted a survey of 1,000 YouTube users, 87 percent of whom picked the spread of [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are estimated to have spent an hour on average on the mobile YouTube app a day last month, data showed Tuesday. The average time a local mobile user spent on the video streaming app in January stood at 30 hours and 34 minutes, or 59 minutes a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — A dance video by avatars imitating K-pop girl group BLACKPINK reached 100 million views on YouTube. The dance cover of the four-member band’s 2020 hit single “Ice Cream” featuring Selena Gomez surpassed 100 million views last Saturday, just five months after it was revealed last September, according to YG Entertainment. This [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — As online classes are scheduled for this year’s academic calendar, parents are increasingly concerned over their children’s addiction to YouTube. What begins with a YouTube link shared by school teachers on an online education platforms ends with children not knowing when to stop watching videos, parents claim. Choi, a [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Over 66 percent of South Koreans used over-the-top (OTT) media, or video streaming services, last year amid the stay-at-home trend driven by the pandemic, a survey showed Tuesday. South Korea’s OTT usage rate stood at 66.3 percent in 2020, compared with 52 percent the previous year, according to a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for “Dynamite,” the historic BTS song that topped the Billboard’s main singles chart last year, has earned 800 million YouTube views, the band’s agency said Sunday. YouTube views for “Dynamite” hit 800 million views at 12:26 p.m. on Sunday, becoming the septet’s sixth music video to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korea Meteorological Administration (KMA) held the official launch of its new ‘Earthquake Monitor Video Service’ on Wednesday. This service enables users to view the state weather agency’s real-time earthquake monitors and analysis through YouTube videos. Thus far, the KMA’s earthquake information was limited to only earthquake alerts that [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube has banned multiple channels suspected of being run by North Korea. A YouTube channel named Echo of Truth Returns had been used as a North Korean propaganda outlet before it was removed from YouTube on Friday. “The account was deleted for violating Google’s terms of service,” said YouTube. [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — “I Can’t Stop Me” has become K-pop girl group TWICE’s fastest music video to rack up 200 million views on YouTube, its management agency said Monday. The music video hit the milestone around 8:40 p.m. Sunday, some 77 days after its release in October, according to JYP Entertainment. The [...]