WeMadeEntertainment, the maker of AniPang (one of the most played online games in Korea) announced yesterday that they will be boycotting G-Star 2013, the global gaming expo in Korea. With the opposition to the bill gaining a lot of support from the gaming and IT industry, it will be interesting to see how events unfold. beSUCCESS investigates the Shutdown Law and the recently passed bill that suggests a 1% collection of annual income from gaming companies.

Korean Kakao Talk game, Everybody Cha Cha Cha, has infuriated Sony Computer Entertainment, who are beginning legal proceedings after claiming the Korean firm has stolen its intellectual property and game content.

Smart Home advances at CES 2013 from NetGear (live remote security feeds and advanced TV tech)- Much more coming in this space in 2013 from the major players.

요즘 주변 지인들과 대화를 나누다보면 소셜 스트레스에 대한 얘기를 한다. 페이스북, 트위터를 필두로 소셜 관계를 다루는 모바일 앱이 많아지고 사용량이 증가하면서 그에 따른 병폐도 생기는 것으로 보인다. 이 가운데 비석세스는 해결책을 제시하기 보다, 여러분이 직접 겪은 소셜 스트레스 사례를 조사하고 공유하여 현 상황을 객관적으로 파악하고자 한다.   Facebook Social Stress (페이스북 소셜 스트레스) 해당 설문은 비석세스에서 진행하는 익명 설문 조사로 최근 가중 되는 소셜 스트레스의 실 사례를 도출하고 공유하기 위함입니다. * 필수항목…

beLAUNCH proud to announce another top CEO speaker:“I’m pretty sure that we’re the fastest growing company ever in terms of new users, that’s not growing virally or paying for new customers” is what Phil Libin says of Evernote, which he founded in 2007.

Samsung has revealed more exciting tech at CES 2013. Bendy screens – super-powerful processors…and an aging politician taling about gun control.

올해로 4주년을 맞는 미국의 크라우딩펀드 킥스타터가 2012년을 되돌아보며 ‘The Best of 2012’ 페이지를 개설했다. 지난 해 킥스타터에서 벌어진 재미있는 일들과 흥미로운 기록들을 함께 살펴보도록 하자.

Many commentators are heralding the arrival of Apple hardware, in the form of a Facebook branded smartphone, produced by HTC. I don’t think so. But it seems likely that Mark Zuckerberg has something big to let us know.
More on this after the press conference, January 15.

It’s no news that LG Display competes with Samsung for the title of the world’s largest LCD maker. At the same time, LG is also seeking to expand its manufacturing lines to meet heavy demands for their tablets and smartphones. Meanwhile, Samsung will invest more in the home appliance industry such as fridges and robot vacuum cleaners. This can be seen as their attempt at strengthening their home appliances portfolio that is considerably weak compared to LG’s.

In the recent International Consumer Electronics Show (ICES) that was held this Monday, LG expressed their interest in business alliance, namely, a “Smart TV Alliance” by securing new partners. Smart TV Alliance is an industry body complete with involvements from LG Electronics, Philips, Qualcomm, and Toshiba just to name a few.

beSUCCESS investigates how LG will spend its 19 billion USD investment.

미국 라스베가스는 지금 현재 ‘CES(국제 최대 가전 박람회) 2013’의 열기로 뜨겁습니다. 올해 CES의 주인공인 삼성, LG, Sony 등의 대기업 스포트라이트에 가려진 숨겨진 보물, 게임분야의 핫(hot)한 하드웨어들을 소개합니다.

beSUCCESS covers weekly news in Korea, 9 Jan.

Sony has arguably beaten Samsung and LG (and everyone else) by combining the two biggest TV technology developments in one amazing TV set at the World’s biggest consumer electronics show in Las Vegas.

54Million Smart TVs were sold in 2012. but many consumers were non-fussed with the usability of many of the new features and globally only about 60% of internet ready TVs were ever connected (only 10% regularly connected in Europe). Can Samsung attract better usability reviews with its new products?

In November 2012, 55% of the companies that have not used a cloud service said that they plan to use it within 18 months. Desktop virtualization has been the number 1 interest of Korean companies for 2 consecutive years. Which tells us that there will be a definite expansion of cloud services within the Korean companies this year. Although the figures seem meek compared to 79% (Australian companies seem to be very enthusiastic), this could mean more potential for Korea, as we will be able to see that such virtual environments globally sued and acknowledged.

Several big names have exited Korea in the last few years (CarreFour, Walmart, Motorola, RIM, HTC, Goldman Sachs, to mention a few), but can Korean consumers be blamed for the failure of foreign companies to attract and retain market share, as some have suggested?

Apple’s iphone 5 fails to hit the target in arch rival Samsung’s home country, South Korea.

Samsung sold its millionth Galaxy Note II in Korea just over 90 days after its launch, in September. This means that Galaxy Note II’s domestic and global sales now reached 5 million units. Let’s compare this with Galaxy Note 1. In its early phase sales, it took Samsung 10 months to reach 10 million sales. We expect that Galaxy Note II will achieve the same feat in 4-5 months given the current…

What are the key words for IT Korea 2013? What are some of the key words for the IT market in Korea for this year? According to Gartner, and The National IT Industry Promotion Agency (NIPA), the 10 key words for 2013 are: The beSUCCESS team thinks that mobile platform wars, enterprise app stores, cloud computing, and intellectual property rights are the main key words in 2013. beSUCCESS will be writing more…