Tag Archives: iphone
Do Chinese People Look Like Korean Celebrities?
Yet another Korean app is going global. The popular 푸딩얼굴인식 (Pudding Face Recognition) is now available in Chinese, English and Japanese versions. In English the app is called “Korean Celeb Face Match” and it does just about what you’d expect for app by that name. Upload a picture taken with your phone’s camera and the app shows… Continue Reading
Survey: Korean Businesses Don’t Yet Have Their Heads in the Cloud
A new study conducted by Microsoft has come to the rather surprising conclusion that when it comes to cloud computing, Korean businesses are among the biggest laggards in the Asia-Pacific region. The study — which covered Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia and Korea — found that on a five-point scale gauging… Continue Reading
New Groupon App Aims to Liberate You of Your Cash on the Go
Groupon Korea, currently the third-largest social commerce site in the country, has become the first such service to launch its own Android and iPhone apps in Korea. The new apps have all the functionality of the website and offer three modes of payment: credit card, bank transfer and mobile payment. To make payments via the app,… Continue Reading
Park Geun-hye Invades Your Smartphone
Anyone who feels there are just too many apps these days has some handy new ammunition for their argument. Courtesy of the “Blue Park” group of young supporters and others, come not one, but two new Android apps devoted to dictator’s offspring, presidential hopeful and opportunist-in-chief Park Geun-hye. Called “A Country of Happy People,” the Blue… Continue Reading
Helizet Aims Big by Getting Personal
From Bloter and IT Today comes news of a new domestic SNS contender called Helizet. Though Korea’s internet is littered with the graves of ill-fated start-ups, Helizet has been catching media attention for three reasons: 1) a boss with previous experience at Cyworld, Daum and Yahoo; 2) a user base that’s leaped from 100,000 to more than 500,000… Continue Reading
Shifting Fortunes: Google and Cyworld
A couple of stories popped up on Naver search yesterday that suggest how much the ground has shifted beneath Cyworld’s feet, and the challenges it faces in regaining its mojo. First, from edaily, comes this speculative report that Google’s recent change in CEO could have an intriguing impact on the country’s approach to Korea. Google’s relative… Continue Reading
Great Talent + 4 iPhones = a "World Star"
In mid-March, a YouTube video made a big buzz among the Korean Twitter users. It was a video of a girl singing and playing Beyoncé’s “Irreplaceable” with various musical apps in 3 iPhones. She had been known as “iPhone-nyuh”(“nyuh” means “girl” in Korean) at that time, And the link of the video spread really fast via Twitter… Continue Reading
KT to sell Apple's iPhone in Korea from November 28
Apple’s iPhone will finally enter the Korean market on November 28. Korea Telecom (KT), Korea’s second largest mobile carrier, finally announced the sale of the iPhone on their official blog Sunday morning. This comes after numerous roadblocks such as the WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability) standard and laws regarding location-based service providers were lifted. There was… Continue Reading
