Posts Tagged ‘south korea’

A group of nearly 27,000 South Koreans have filed a lawsuit against Apple for a whopping $26 million, claiming privacy violations on the collection of iPhone user location information. Apple spokesman Steve Park in Seoul has declined to comment on the situation.

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Korean became the seventh Twitter language, joining English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Twitter announced the news in a post on the Twitter Blog, in Korean, appropriately. From the English translation:

Twitter use is growing in all corners of the world. In the past year, one of the fastest-growing countries for Twitter is South Korea. There are now 10 times as many Twitter users there than there were just a year ago.

As of today, Twitter will be even easier for Koreans to use. Among other updates, Twitter.com and Twitter’s mobile Web site are now translated into Korean.

Twitter has also updated the popular Korean versions of Twitter for Android and Twitter for iPhone. And, we want to thank our partner Daum for displaying top Korean Tweets on its homepage and making it easy to find friends from your Hanmail address book; and LG U+ for working with us to make Twitter available via SMS in Korean for their subscribers (short code is #1234).

If you already have a Twitter account, you can change your language to Korean by going to the Settings page, which you can find under the drop-down menu in the top right corner of Twitter.com. To keep up with the latest information about Twitter in Korea, you can follow @twitter_kr for updates from Twitter HQ, @dowoomi for Twitter support, and @toptweets_ko for top Tweets from Korean users. To share your feedback on Twitter in Korean, you can include #twitterkr in your tweets.

The battle over Google’s data collection tactics continues to expand abroad, with Spain joining Germany and South Korea as the latest countries to tangle with the Internet giant over its “Street View” mapping feature. A summons made public this weekin Spain revealed that Madrid Judge Raquel Fernandino has called for a Google representative to appear [...]

This week, the South Korean Supreme Court made a ruling stating that online games’ virtual currency, or “cyber money”, can legally be exchanged for real world currency. The ruling also stated that transactions using this “cyber money” will be taxable.