SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube is poised to become the most used mobile platform in South Korea, closely trailing the current leader KakaoTalk, industry data showed Wednesday. As of December, KakaoTalk, the country’s top mobile messenger run by Kakao Corp., had a total of 41.02 million monthly active users (MAUs), while Google’s YouTube [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The government is considering imposing antitrust regulations on large content platforms such as YouTube and Netflix amid a sharp increase in their subscription fees, an official said Thursday. According to the senior ruling camp official, the government and the presidential office immediately took steps to address monopolistic and oligopolistic [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Hyundai Home Shopping is embarking on an extensive expansion of its deal-commerce content series, ‘The Naked Ad Studio,’ on YouTube. The company aims to diversify its growth avenues by decreasing reliance on traditional TV broadcasting and boosting competitiveness on mobile platforms. On Wednesday, Hyundai Home Shopping announced the launch of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – According to a recent study, South Koreans devoted over 100 billion minutes to YouTube in the past month. This data, collected through a survey of a smartphone user sample by Wiseapp, a service specializing in app and retail analytics, reveals a significant uptick in YouTube usage. Comparing figures from October, [...]
CHANGWON, Sept. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — Amid growing public concerns about Japan’s release of contaminated water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, South Gyeongnsang provincial government has taken a unique approach to reassure its residents about the safety of the water supply through a YouTube broadcast. This broadcast goes beyond being a mere live [...]
SEOUL, July 17 (Korea Bizwire) — BLACKPINK, the world’s biggest girl group, has garnered over 90 million subscribers on YouTube, cementing its position as the most-followed musical act on the global video sharing service. The quartet hit the milestone at 5:36 a.m. Monday, about seven years and a month after its YouTube channel was created, [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — With the opening of its first official shopping channel in South Korea, YouTube has paved the way for direct-to-consumer (D2C) shopping malls to launch live shopping programs. Aqo Studio initiated a live shopping program on YouTube’s shopping channel on July 1, accumulating over 350,000 views. Gaze Shop also joined [...]
SEOUL, June 21 (Korea Bizwire) — YouTube will launch its official shopping channel in South Korea for live commerce later this month for the first time in the world, people familiar with the matter said Wednesday. The new channel, set to open June 30, will provide a live commerce platform to companies and plans to [...]
BUSAN, June 5 (Korea Bizwire) — In the film “A Time to Kill (1996),” a black father takes the law into his own hands when he shoots and kills two white men in a courtroom. He commits this act of vigilante justice as a response to the rape of his young daughter by two white [...]
SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Videos featuring audio of specific frequencies that purportedly “grant wishes” are gaining popularity on YouTube. A 24-year-old office worker surnamed Jang experienced an unexpected financial windfall after listening to these “money-making frequencies,” leading him to genuinely believe in their efficacy. Jang has made a habit of listening to frequency [...]