SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Against Japan’s territorial claim to Dokdo, South Korea’s easternmost islets in the East Sea, a video news clip was released on Youtube disclosing the tragic extinction of sea lions around the island by Japanese fishermen. The second episode of Dokdo News titled “Truth of Disappeared Gangchi (Sea Lion)” counters [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — The share of SNS among the whole time spent on the 50 most used apps in Korea is 40.3 percent, according to an announcement from Ranky.com, a market research company, on January 16. The company analyzed app usage times for the 50 most used apps by 60,000 mobile device users [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean Government is set to launch a 1.4 billion won (US$ 1.3 million) project to delete Korean citizens’ exposed personal information, said the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) on January 14. The project’s goal is to find cases of illegally collected or mishandled personal information among domestic and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Corp., South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, saw a sharp growth in its online video streaming business last year, closing the gap with the world’s largest video-sharing website YouTube in the local market, data showed Thursday. The number of unique visitors (UV) at Naver’s TV Cast spiked 52.4 [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 23 (Korea Bizwire) – Amid the situation in which sexually explicit contents proliferate on foreign websites such as Google and YouTube, a lawmaker said, the government is doing little to curb it to protect the youths. According to Congressman Song Ho-chang (New Politics Alliance for Democracy) on October 15, the number of illegal [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – The Public Broadcasting DMB Commission announced on August 19 that, among video application net users, 1,764 used YouTube and 1,438 used DMB, based on a survey from January 2014 to July conducted by Nielsen KoreanClick. It means that Korea’s smartphone users mostly use YouTube and DMB video apps. Only [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) – Jiyeon’s solo debut title “1MIN 1SEC” has become the talk of the town in China just after the release of its music video on May 20. In Yinyuetai, Chinese version of YouTube, her music video holds No. 1 rank since its release. The top rank for two consecutive weeks [...]
![[Feature] Another Shame on Korea, Samsung’s “Poor” Crisis Management](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Samsung-Galaxy-S5-800x500.jpg "[Feature] Another Shame on Korea, Samsung’s “Poor” Crisis Management")
SEOUL, Korea, April 24, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Recently, The Wall Street Journal published a story doubting the crisis management ability of the Korean government revealed in the tragic accident of the sunken ferry Sewol. In it, the world-renowned news media said the leadership of President Park Geun-hye is being tested with several mishaps committed [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 15, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – While delightful background music is playing, disturbing images of decayed human body parts are flashed with a caption saying “Every cigarette is doing you damage.” This is the content of an anti-smoking advertisement made by the government of Australia. In order to convey a powerful message, the [...]
SEOUL, Korea, April 14, 2014 (Korea Bizwire) – Computer games are no longer a child play but a serious moneymaking venture. Nah Dong-hyun, a 36-year-old former programmer with SK Communications, makes about 20 million won a month for game casting. Sometimes his monthly income goes up as high as 35 million won, depending on the [...]