SEOUL, June 3 (Korea Bizwire) — An increasing number of the “MZ generation,” a Korean term referring to those aged between late 10s and 30s, are opening up about depression and other personal difficulties on YouTube. YouTubers have typically been depicting themselves as happy, diligent characters. Some show off their wealth by introducing luxury clothes [...]
SEOUL, May 12 (Korea Bizwire) — A video advertisement that talks about Japan’s “swastika” flag will air on YouTube, a project spearheaded by Seo Kyoung-duk, a South Korean professor at Sungshin Women’s University in Seoul. Seo spent personal funds to respond to the Japanese Foreign Ministry’s recent video that claims Japan’s Rising Sun Flag doesn’t [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean webtoon series “Money Game” has been produced into an American web reality show, Naver Webtoon said Tuesday. The new American show is a five-episode reality show in which eight participants compete in a series of brainteaser games to win a prize of US$300,000. Jubilee, a YouTube channel [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Seoul Fashion Week, set to kick off this week, will be introduced on the global streaming platform YouTube’s official fashion and beauty vertical for the first time as a fashion week event in Asia, the city government said Monday. The SFW, organized by the Seoul city government, is South [...]
GANGNEUNG, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Cities on the east coast in Gangwon Province plan to broadcast live footage of the New Year’s sunrise for residents and tourists unable to visit due to COVID-19. The city of Gangneung will open up a live broadcast of the New Year’s sunrise via its official YouTube channel at [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — The actions of children introducing toys or performing in YouTube videos should be understood as labor rather than play, a study showed Wednesday. A research team from Ewha Womans University observed and analyzed the child behaviors contained in 788 YouTube videos from nine channels among the nation’s top 100 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — The pandemic has expedited the process of digital transition, increased information and communications technology (ICT) investment and encouraged tech startups. The Ministry of SMEs and Startups reported a 26.1 percent increase in the number of tech startups between January and September of this year, adding a total of 34,240 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The music video for the K-pop supergroup BTS’ 2019 hit “Boy With Luv” surpassed 1.4 billion YouTube views for the first time among videos from the group Wednesday. “Boy With Luv,” the main track of the septet’s sixth EP “Map of the Soul: Persona,” hit the milestone at around [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean phenomenon “Squid Game” has outnumbered the longtime TV powerhouse “Game of Thrones” in terms of combined YouTube views of its derivative video content, a U.S. media outlet has reported. A total of 129,000 videos of the survival drama, including official trailers, fan-made reaction clips and video [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — A recent study showed that older and more conservative South Koreans tend to use YouTube as a source of news more than their younger and more liberal counterparts. The Korea Press Foundation on Monday published an analytical report that focused on the local data among those included in the [...]