SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Rookie girl group aespa’s song “Black Mamba” has earned 100 million views on YouTube, becoming the fastest debut music video by a K-pop act to reach the milestone, the group’s agency said Friday. The music video for “Black Mamba” hit the milestone at around 5:35 a.m. Friday, 51 days [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — In recent days, there have been frequent cases in which YouTube videos containing revelatory or defamatory content turned out to be manipulated or contain information that was demonstrably false. The owner of a restaurant in Daegu recently filed a public petition on the website of the presidential office saying [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Innovation Co., South Korea’s top oil refiner, plans to live broadcast its 2021 New Year’s sunrise event through YouTube in accordance with the government’s special anti-COVID-19 measures. The company said it will use YouTube to live broadcast the New Year’s sunrise viewed from its Ulsan Complex for about [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that spending more time watching YouTube as a way of killing time during the coronavirus era results in a higher sense of helplessness and loneliness. A research team from the Kookmin University School of Communication conducted a survey of 149 college students and how they [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — A YouTube posting that recreated South Korea’s traditional dance “Taepyeongmu” as an augmented reality (AR) video is enjoying rising popularity. The Taepyeongmu AR, a video created by South Korea’s top mobile carrier SK Telecom Co. and the Cultural Heritage Administration, surpassed the 1.1 million view mark on YouTube on [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent survey revealed that people face fake news mainly through online videos uploaded via new media like YouTube. The Korea Press Foundation carried out a survey of 1,000 South Korean adults to find out the main sources of fake news. In response to a question asking about the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 5 (Korea Bizwire) — A law revision set to take effect next week will tighten rules for data-hungry internet giants, such as Netflix Inc., amid growing calls for stable services. Earlier this week, the Cabinet passed an amendment to the ordinance of the Telecommunication Business Act, stipulating that online content service providers are [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop group BLACKPINK is set to hold its first-ever online concert in collaboration with YouTube Music later this month, its management agency said Thursday. The concert, titled “YG Palm Stage – 2020 BLACKPINK: The Show,” will take place at 2 p.m. on Dec. 27, according to YG Entertainment. It [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are estimated to have spent over 50 billion minutes on YouTube in September amid the pandemic, a 20 percent jump from a year earlier, data showed Tuesday. Mobile app tracker Wiseapp said the video streaming application was the application most used by the country’s 33.7 million Android [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — “Baby Shark Dance,” a sing-and-dance video for the megahit children’s song of the same name, has become the most-watched video on YouTube, the song’s creator said Monday. The South Korean video racked up more than 7 billion views at around 1:20 p.m., dethroning Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee’s megahit [...]