Monthly Archive: April 2024

Guide to B2B marketing in Korea

Want to enter the Korean B2B market or scale your B2B campaigns in Korea? Our agency has experience forging partnerships between your company and the biggest Korean companies. Our B2B clients include international software / SaaS, hardware, ecommerce, biotech, B2G (business to government) organizations.  Contents of this blog post:  Before you start Getting trust Getting …

Guide to digital marketing in Korea (B2C)

Want to reach South Korean consumers digitally? In Korea, digital is the majority (54%) of advertising in Korea. In 2021, Korean digital advertising had the most revenue with 7.5 trillion won (5.9 billion USD). The total advertising revenue in Korea (Asia’s fourth-largest economy) was 13.99 trillion won (about $11.7 billion), up 20.4 percent from 2020. …

KakaoTalk for organizations: Ads and Channel 

Where in most countries the most used messaging app is WhatsApp, in Korea the most dominant messaging app is KakaoTalk. You can read more about KakaoTalk here: KakaoTalk: how to download, use the app and a guide to Friends. Compared to WhatsApp, KakaoTalk has more to offer to brands to engage their clients and prospects. …

Advertising in South Korea (market, agencies, regulations)

Korean ad market Want to advertise in Korea? In 2021 the total advertising revenue in Korea (Asia’s fourth-largest economy) was 13.99 trillion won (about $11.7 billion), up 20.4 percent from 2020.  In 2021, Korean digital advertising had the most revenue with 7.5 trillion won (5.9 billion USD). The division is as follows: Source: http://www.brandbrief.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=5024  The …

Korean advertisement prize winners and research

Which Korean ads won prizes and what does research about Korean ads say?  In this blog post you will find the posters and videos that won prizes at the 2023 Korea Advertising Awards hosted by the KFAA (Korean Federation of Advertising Associations). Source: https://adawards.ad.co.kr/annual/winners  https://m.edaily.co.kr/news/read?newsId=02961846622682440&mediaCodeNo=257 Also, we share research about common and effective Korean ad …

Most popular Korean social media (2023)

Koreans are generally a social people and the “Active social network penetration in Korea” was 93%, the third highest in the world. Korea also has the world’s 6th highest smartphone penetration rate.  But what are the most popular social media apps in South Korea? There are different ways to measure this, for example: Every method …