SEOUL, Dec.9 (Korea Bizwire) – A parody video of North Korea’s founding father Kim Il-sung, the late leader Kim Jong-il and current leader Kim Jong-un dancing is gaining popularity on YouTube. The 25 second long video clip named ‘I got it from my ABAY (meaning ‘father’ in North Korean)’ had reached 171,013 views as of [...]
SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) – It has been reported that the number of subscribers to North Korean propaganda SNS channels is soaring. As of July 24, there were 11,756 subscribers to a YouTube channel named “uriminzokkiri.” The channel features propaganda video clips about North Korea, and is run by its Committee for Peaceful Reunification. [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 16 (Korea Bizwire) ― LG Electronics (LG) is partnering once again with YouTube’s hottest stars from around the world to highlight the best and most unique features of the LG G4 smartphone. Five YouTube celebrities and teams have accepted the challenge of creating videos to tell entertaining stories around the G4 this summer. So [...]
SEOUL, July 8 (Korea Bizwire) – In the first half of the year, private creators showed a marked improvement on YouTube as non-celebrity channels have been attracting more subscribers. Global video streaming site YouTube released the top 20 Korean YouTube channels with the highest growth in the number of subscribers on July 7. Among the members [...]
SEOUL, June 29 (Korea Bizwire) — K-pop girl group Sistar ranked No. 1 on major local music charts for the eighth consecutive day Monday with its new single “Shake It.” Released a week ago, “Shake It” has since been on top of the real-time K-pop chart of Melon, an online music service that dominates 60 percent of [...]
SEOUL, June 10 (Korea Bizwire) – The preparatory committee for the Korea Queer Culture Festival and Rainbow Action, an activist group for sexual minorities, proceeded with their 16th annual festival at Seoul Plaza for the first time in its history amid protests from conservative and Christian groups. At the opening ceremony, only some 150 organizers and activists [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has trumped other major countries in terms of mobile application (app) usage, with smartphone owners in the country spending most of their time on social messengers, a report showed Thursday. The index gauging the mobile data usage by South Korean smartphone users reached 125 in the first [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s leading content and media company CJ E&M Thursday launched a new project supporting YouTube video creators to help them advance to the global market. The company said it will expand its two-year-old Multi-Channel Network (MCN) service under the rechristened brand name, DIA TV, an acronym for Digital [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — A video clip featuring attempts to damage Samsung’s Galaxy S6 Edge with a knife and hammer is drawing a lot of attention on YouTube. The clip was uploaded on the TechRax channel, which specializes in testing the durability of the latest smartphones. The clip first shows human hands hitting [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) — “Gangnam Style,” the mega-hit single by South Korean rapper Psy, has surpassed the 2.3 billion mark in YouTube views nearly three years after it was released, his management agency said Monday. The video hit the 2.3 billion milestone Sunday afternoon, YG Entertainment said. Uploaded on July 15, 2012, “Gangnam Style” [...]