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 …

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. …

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. …

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 …

Korea is one of the few countries (like China and Russia) where Google is not the largest search engine. Advertising on it can greatly help your organization reach its goals. But why should you do any advertising? There is scientific evidence that advertising will increase your revenue, profit and market capitalization. The empirical results support …

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 …

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 …

Every year, millions of Koreans travel internationally for a variety of reasons. Despite there still being a decrease in international travel from the figures recorded before the covid-19 pandemic, there has been an overall shift in the preferences for Koreans regarding their favourite and least favourite countries, as well as their choice if they were …

Naver Naver is a search engine that was launched in 1999 and has grown into becoming South Korea’s main search engine with approximately 40 million active users. When Naver was first launched, its main goal as a platform was to be the quickest search engines available in order to be the most used search portal …

What is Naver maps & Kakao maps? Naver maps is an online application launched as a subsidiary company by the Naver corporation in the early 2000’s. Naver acts as the main search engine used in South Korea, which results in the use of Naver maps almost equaling that of the 42 million users of the …