Let's ring in the new year with a new set of interesting links from around Korea from the end of the year. This list includes links from November and December of 2022.
To me this will be the year that we were promised Apple Pay but it didn't pan out. Maybe next year.
- 10원 Tips Probably too late now, but the first 23 customers at Starbucks branches in Korea will get free drinks today to ring in the new year 2023.
- Translation app gets restaurant menu upgrade
- The biggest culture moments of 2022
- Disaster Blights Korea's Emergence from Lockdown in 2022
- What to expect in 2023
- Changes to come in 2023
- 10원 Tips Beautiful "Goodbye 2022" Naver logo doodle.
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for 2023, the year of the rabbit. By artist "Oh Dock" (오독, 5-dock). Artist Instagram: instagram.com/5dock_dd/
- 10원 Tips Huge full collection of every special Naver logo doodle from 2022! Looks like there's a few that I missed tweeting out. 네이버 스페셜로고로 돌아보는 2022년 blog.naver.com/naver_diary/22…
- 10원 Tips Great idea for the new Seoul city slogan: "Better Call Seoul" https://t.co/ChnfVy52zb Quoted tweet from @trzeciczescnocy: 베터 콜 서울 해주세요 twitter.com/bbungkae/statu…
- CU to make instant VAT refund for foreign customers
- ‘Samsung Highway’ under Construction in Williamson County in the U.S.
- Kakao Ends Remote work, Implements the “Office First” Work System.
- Kakao announces user compensation plan following data center fire
- Millennium Hilton Seoul disappears into history
- Typing without keyboard becomes reality
- New Law to Let Foreigners Work in Korea Longer
- Nexon Founder's Crypto Account Hacked After His Death
- S. Korean government restructures cloud security certification system.
- ICT ministry hit for allowing Amazon, Microsoft to enter public cloud market
- First autonomous bus service to use BRT roads launches
- Naver Expands Delivery Service to Supermarkets with Homeplus Partnership.
- New pro gamer team formed by elderly ages 62-69
- The “true Christmas spirit”
- Gen Z vs Gen Z: How their enemies at work are now themselves
- SsangYong Motor to change name to KG Mobility
- 10원 Tips Orion (Korean snack company) released their own Advent Calendar type package this year.
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for Christmas Eve 2022 from artist Gyu Hana (규하나). Artist Instagram: instagram.com/kyuhana_/
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for Christmas day 2022. Same artist.
- 10원 Tips The "leftover vaccine" feature on Naver Map, Kakao Map will be depreciated. End of an era.
- South Korean Man Arrested for Hacking 400,000 Apartment Cameras
- S. Korean On-demand streaming player, Wavve acquires Kocowa.
- KT Alpha supplies 1,400 pieces of content over the Apple TV App.
- KakaoTalk Adds ‘Sneak Out’ Function to Team Chats
- Stalkers turn Korean women’s streaming jobs into living nightmares
- Bank account flagged as spam?
- Busan Detectives Help Out Theft Suspect
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for Dongji, the winter solstice. Cooking up a steaming bowl of Red bean porridge (Patjuk,팥죽) traditionally eaten at this time.
- 10원 Tips Fan of the McDonalds chocolate ice cream cones, apple pies, or the Filet-o-Fish? Better eat them up while you can. All will be discontinued at the end of THIS year. biz.chosun.com/distribution/f…
- 10원 Tips Higher percentage of thefts in the last few years have been "livelihood" crimes, where desperate people steal small items (ramen, water, bread) to survive. Sad. newsfeed.dispatch.co.kr/2231902
- 10원 Tips Kakao Pay barcode widget can now be pulled up from an iOS lockscreen widget. Faster access to payment cards.
- 10원 Tips Naver Shopping's live shopping host, Dana. Yes, she's virtual.
- 10원 Tips Top apps in Korea for 2022 Left column: Overall top apps 1 KakaoTalk 2 YouTube 3 Naver 4 Coupang 5 Naver Map Right column: Top yearly growth 1 Survivor.io (game) 2 Naver Map 3 Toss 4 KakaoT 5 11St.
- 10원 Tips Top Payment apps in Korea in 2022. Let's see if Apple Pay makes a dent next year. Via platum.kr/archives/199255
- 10원 Tips Top communication apps in Korea for 2022. Kakao Talk still dominates, with Facebook Messenger, Discord, Telegram rounding out the top. Via platum.kr/archives/199255
- 10원 Tips Top map and navigation apps in Korea for 2022. 1 Naver Map 2 T-Map 3 Kakao Map 4 Kakao T 5 Google Map Via platum.kr/archives/199255
- S. Korea’s Sea Level Rises Nearly 10 Centimeters Over 33 Years
- First GTX-A train delivered by Hyundai Rotem
- Naver unveils real-time pornography filtering technology.
- Netflix Says Subscribers Love Korean Content
- Naver criticized for series of service disruptions
- Man nabbed for hacking built-in home cameras of 400,000 households
- Research Reveals Potential Reduction of Auto Repair Jobs in Jeju with Widespread Adoption of EVs
- 10원 Tips NAVER logo doodle for the 2022 Qatar World Cup final match
- Yongsan District Officials Found to Have Changed Phones in Wake of Crowd Crush
- 10원 Tips Zoe Saldana (Guardians of the Galaxy, Star Trek, Avatar) visited Gwangjang Market in Seoul while in Korea promoting Avatar 2 newsfeed.dispatch.co.kr/2230985
- 10원 Tips Ulsan City's crow festival will award you prizes for getting shit on by the birds. Sadly, cancelled due to bird flu concerns.
- 10원 Tips Save time in the McDonald's drive-thru by just paying with Hi-Pass. Even more "drive-thru" now. Neat. Trial happening in Goyang and Songpa. fnnews.com/news/202212150…
- 10원 Tips Make restaurant reservations and orders right inside KakaoMap via KakaoTalk kakaomap.tistory.com/364
- [Feature] Korea is no country for long names
- Greenwashing gotchas in Korea give way to formal guidelines
- Kakao's AI filter reduces profane comments on online news - KED Global
- ESTsoft completes construction of studio dedicated to AI virtual humans - KED Global
- State postal service tests multi-point drone delivery in western islands
- 10원 Tips On the Airport line (AREX), an adorable mascot doll reserves the seats for pregnant women. Cute and subtle way of encouraging etiquette. Good 눈치 in action.
- BTS' Jin enlists: What to know about South Korea's mandatory military service
- Korea's Instagram year in review highlights studying, exercising
- Pediatrics Departments Face Crisis as Medical Resident Applications Drop
- K-pop: The rise of the virtual girl bands
- “To make a mistake and not correct it” voted Sino-Korean idiom of 2022
- 10원 Tips Naver Blog's campaign to get more people, especially younger people, blogging again, seems to be bearing fruit. Overall blogging is up on-year in every age group, and 76% of newly opened blogs were the under-30s.
- 10원 Tips The most popular emojis used in Naver Blog posts: 1. Heart 🧡 2. Thumbs up 👍 3. Star ⭐️
- 10원 Tips The trending keyword topics among Naver Blogs in 2022, by month.
- 10원 Tips A rumor is spreading that KakaoTalk will shut down its Open Chatting feature. It is false.
- 10원 Tips Texts/Kakao messages sometimes interpret dates (eg 2022-12-09) as phone numbers and link-ifies them. All year long people with 010-2022-XXXX numbers have been getting wrong calls from folks clicking those links. Whoops! yna.co.kr/view/AKR202212…
- 10원 Tips Top 10 Trending YouTube Videos in South Korea for 2022. #1 was the Everland worker who rapped the safety instructions on the water ride. [] #2 was Taeyeon (formerly of SNSD) doing a solo concert Korean Englishman (영국남자) made the list at #6
- National Health Insurance Suffers Financially Due to Excessive Medical Procedures
- 10원 Tips Koreans apparently believe in "얼죽아" (short for 얼어 죽어도 아이스커피, "iced coffee even if I freeze to death!") as 60% of winter order at Starbucks in Korea are for iced beverages. fnnews.com/news/202212080…
- 9 Christmas Markets In Korea To Get In The Holiday Spirit
- Woori Bank announces reservation-based multilingual service on Sundays
- New Incheon Subway Line 2 trains bring improvements
- 10원 Tips Want to use Apple Pay (soon) but can't get a Hyundai Card credit card? Netizens discover that a Hyundai M checking card from SC First Bank works. zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=20221…
- Kakao Ent. removes nearly 7 mil. pirated episodes of webtoons, web novels worldwide
- After two-year delay, LG PuriCare Wearable Air Purifier released locally
- Korea to scrap local age counting system from next year
- Payco’s signature key has been leaked.
- Army to retire scout dog Dalgwan famed for finding missing girl in 2019
- Popeyes gives Korea a second try as it returns to the market next week
- KT deploys AI concierge system to hotel in central Seoul
- Seoul to renovate popular riverside areas to prevent accident by unexpected heavy rainfall
- 'Trend Korea 2023' author gives insight into must-haves and dos
- ‘Bring my child back’: American fathers cry foul
- 10원 Tips KakaoTalk will let you add little "like" button type stickers to your Kakao profile page, which friends can tap to increase the count.
- American father's battle to find missing children in Korea
- Gov't Admin to Use International Age System from Next Year
- KT provides first cloud-based virtual desktop service for central bank
- Confusing 'Korean age' system to be done away with starting next year
- Phishing Email Disguised as a Well-Known Korean Airline
- Samsung teams up with Naver to develop semiconductor solutions for hyperscale AI models
- 10원 Tips Despite Korea's big loss to Brazil, Naver and Daum logo doodles offer encouragement and thankful support to the team.
- Seoul trams to make a return in 2025
- Apple Pay launch in South Korea delayed due to review of local terms and conditions
- Naver Webtoon develops technology for visually impaired
- 10원 Tips Hwang Hee-chan's "sports bra," shown when he took off his uniform top after scoring a key goal, is actually an EPTS, a GPS-enabled fitness tracking device! And most top players wear them! Used for big data gathering to manage top players. More: fifa.com/technical/foot…
- 10원 Tips Naver and Daum logo doodles celebrating Korea's advancement to the Round of 16 in Qatar World Cup
- Naver unveils a new service using multimodal AI technology.
- Samsung Foldable Phone Sales for Enterprise Use More than Double On-year in 10 Months
- Korea adopts USB-C as unified connector for phone charging cable
- 10원 Tips Be careful of phishing scams that seem to be from police informing about tickets for red light, crosswalk, speeding violations etc
- 10원 Tips Top Google Play apps for 2022 in Korea Top spot: Disney+ Very respectable showing for Naver Pay too.
- Korea's Share of N. American Battery Market Forecast to Reach 70%
- BTS stands fifth in Spotify's list of most-streamed global artists in 2022
- Phishing Website Disguised as a Famous Korean Email Login Website Being Distributed
- 10원 Tips If you're a customer of one of these banks, you can use the Post Office ATMs without fee.
- 10원 Tips Looks like I was wrong about low NFC terminals hindering Apple Pay in Korea. Terminals are being installed rapidly around Korea, some already showing Apple Pay support. Not *officially* launched until January though. zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=20221…
- How Is My Phone Number Leaked?
- Seoul to have first tram in 57 years
- LG CNS rebrands AI English learning app as Buttertime
- After Musk’s takeover, Korean users spend less time on Twitter
- Virtual influencer 'WAI' to make debut with ballad song
- SK Telecom Launches its metaverse, ifland, worldwide.
- KT and Zoom sign a partnership agreement for the S.Korean market Go-to-market.
- Dog personality test 'DBTI' gains popularity among pet owners in S. Korea
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for tonight's world cup match, Korea v. Uruguay
- 10원 Tips Seoul subway Line 7 headed out with a carriage door stuck open, given riders a great (if windy!) view of the Han River.
- 10원 Tips For a does of irony: the website for 보안뉴스 (boannews.com), a news site apparently for cybersecurity issues, has an invalid cert leading to a Chrome warning. Whoops!
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for tonight's world cup match, Korea v. Uruguay
- Gyeonggi Launches Accessible Tourism Guide Services for People with Visual and Auditory Impairments
- Park Joo Ho's wife Anna reveals she is battling cancer
- Unused doses of Korea's SKYCovione Covid-19 vaccine to be tossed
- SKT's metaverse platform Ifland makes global debut in 49 countries
- Classical music enthusiasts the latest victims of 'piketing'
- 10원 Tips Remember the rainy day Gangnam bikini motorcycle couple? They're not a couple. Met first time that day. The dude is apparently married and has a kid too! He must have a VERY understanding wife...
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for Kimchi Day #김치의날 by artist Nar. Artist Instagram: instagram.com/nar_rrrr
- 10원 Tips Horror story style anti-phishing video by Korean Police. Mom talks to daughter. "Mom, it dropped & screen broke, need $800 to fix." *Ding dong* At the door is... daughter? WTF... Other "daughter" is just the phone (voice phisher "daughter" on the line) youtube.com/watch?v=cG9Qkp…
- 10원 Tips Not to out myself as an 삼촌팬 or anything, but the NewJeans website is so cute. Whole thing is themed like old CyWorld or a 1990s handphone. newjeans.kr/main
- 10원 Tips Here's the key problem: "Less than 10 percent of card-accepting payment terminals accept NFC, while 90% accept MST". Apple Pay will be a niche service for a long time to come. Apple Pay Draws Mixed Reaction in S. Korea over Its Imminent Service koreabizwire.com/apple-pay-draw…
- 10원 Tips Even though he made mistakes, somehow I can't help feeling sorry for Robert Holley. Glad he finally got to say goodbye to his mom even if it was too late. https://t.co/jm37gUpEqD Quoted tweet from @HolleyinKorea: 어머님.... 아버님... #죄송합니다 ... At my parents' #graveside...
- Apple Pay Draws Mixed Reaction in S. Korea over Its Imminent Service
- Korean subway lines to pilot ‘tagless’ Bluetooth fare payments
- Korean banks partner with airports for biometric traveller IDs
- Korean MNOs let users add digital national ID card to mobile verification app
- 10원 Tips Naver logo doodle for start of Qatar 2022 World Cup by artist Donghyun Lim. Artist Instagram: instagram.com/donghyun_illus…
- 10원 Tips Kids ask math hagwon teacher in Instagram comments "teacher, what will be the answer to #22 on Suneung?" Teacher says "13". Actual answer to question #22? 13. Amazing coincidence, or evidence of cheating? fnnews.com/news/202211201…
- Divorcing in Korea as Foreigners: The Ultimate Guide
- 10원 Tips Who else feels like this when switching over to Google from Naver Maps?
- Sejong City Suffering from Surging Elk Population
- Police Halt Motorcycle Escorts for College Entrance Exam Takers
- 10원 Tips Interesting tidbit: "Students from the same school cannot comprise more than 40 percent of a single examination hall" » High School Islanders Come to Mainland in Preparation for College Entrance Exam koreabizwire.com/high-school-is…
- Gyeonggi bus operators to ban standing passengers
- Naver becomes the first Korean platform to upgrade to HTTP/3 for a faster search service
- No-standing Policy on Intercity Buses Creates Commuter Chaos
- Daejeon expands free subway use to foreign seniors
- KT subsidiary Epsilon Telecommunications launches three Points of Presence (PoPs) across South Korea for better connectivity
- Where is the first person to score max points on the college entrance exam today?
- Disappearance of 'average consumer' to dominate 2023's trend
- Metaverse Seoul selected as one of the best inventions of 2022 by TIME magazine
- Disappearance of 'average consumer' to dominate 2023's trend
- Service Providers Scramble to Prepare for Apple Pay
- 10원 Tips TIL the 1991 Jennifer Connelly movie "Career Opportunities" is apparently titled 백마 타고 휘파람 불고 in Korean, or "Riding the white horse and whistling."
- 10원 Tips Some old promotional materials for the movie. I don't see any clear hint about the reasoning for this title. Anyone know any older Koreans who might have a specific association with this phrase?
- Trending: Audio dramas offer more room for imagination
- CJ Onstyle Partners with Google for Live Commerce Content on YouTube
- South Korean burger franchise Lotteria looks to the US for expansion
- Naver Introduces HTTP/3 for Search Service
- Altos-backed Catch Table starts English version for inbound travelers.
- 10원 Tips YouTube Music now #1 music streaming app in Korea. Looks like it siphoned off users of Melon and Genie.
- LINE launches AI Call leveraging CLOVA technology.
- New online platform KLWave aims to lead literature’s Hallyu
- 10원 Tips KakaoMail has an "eco-mode" setting that deletes spam/trashed emails after 7 days instead of the normal 15 days. Promoted as an environmentally friendly life change. Hmm. together.kakao.com/actions/projec…
- WeMakePrice moving all of its data to Google Cloud
- SNU keeps top slot in university rankings for 7th year
- 10원 Tips This popular Korean chatbot, called Luda, in addition to having realistic (and slang-filled) conversations with you, even sends you pics of places "she" is visiting. Huge improvements over "her"prior scandal.
- 10원 Tips I'm a direct KTM customer myself. Woori Mobile signs up foreigners with KTM but offers English customer service. I was curious about their pricing. According to this, they're charging the exact same as direct KTM (my own plan/payment is on this list). Nice guys.
- 10원 Tips Great image showing Coupang's rise from losing money to making money. Via bloter.net/newsView/blt20…
- Seoul to install EV chargers in state-owned idle spaces
- 10원 Tips List of places where you can use KakaoPay in Japan. Includes airports, department stores, convenience stores, drug stores.
- 10원 Tips CGV to provide live stream of ′2022 Qatar World Cup′ k-odyssey.com/news/newsview.…
- 10원 Tips Kakao Pay QR-code based payment accepted at more offline stores in China and Japan bloter.net/newsView/blt20…
- 10원 Tips I love this promotion to get Korean games off their home desktops and mobile devices and get them "BACK... TO THE PC방" Via cnet.co.kr/view/?no=20221…
Happy new year folks.
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