korea Archive

In contrast to the majority of other countries, Korea uses Naver more frequently than Google. The ability to be found in Naver is crucial for brands. How can businesses like yours accomplish this? The quantity of user-generated content (UGC) on Naver’s search engine results page (SERP) stands out as one of its distinctive features. The …

Want more Koreans to visit your website? Then you have to do search engine optimization (SEO) for Naver, Korea’s largest search engine. SEO is necessary to rank higher organically in any search engine or portal (like Daum, Korea’s second largest portal). Search engines and portals have factors to decide how much traffic they send you. …

No, digital marketing is not about spam email or popups (anymore) – thankfully. I personally prefer not to use those techniques because I think they are often intrusive and irrelevant. There used to be a joke about banner ads that the CTR (click through rate) is so low because people only click on them incidentally. …

Shopify, the ecommerce platform from Canada, has started offering its services in Korea. Shopify Korea launched its new Korean website recently: https://www.shopify.co.kr/. The interface is now available in Korean. There is also news about a payment gateway, fulfillment and customer service. The Korean payment gateway KG Inicis and Shopify announced in March this year that …

Influencer marketing is a relatively new aspect of digital marketing, but it is rapidly becoming an important part of any digital marketing strategy. Korea is not any different. You could even argue that Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) are even more important in Korea, because the Naver algorithm strongly favors User Generated Content (UGC). This blog …

More and more Koreans like to travel abroad. The GDP per capita is increasing (graph is below) so more Koreans want to enjoy their holiday abroad. On average, a Korean visitor to the U.S. spends approximately $4,900 per trip. In 2018, over 28.7 million Koreans, more than half of the population, traveled abroad (up 8% …

As you may know the Korean economy is largely dominated by conglomerates like Samsung, SK, Hyundai and LG. One study even finds that “31 chaebols control 2/3 of facilities investment and exports”. One the one hand you have huge corporations, on the other hand you have a great amount of businesses like convenience stores, coffee …

So you want to do SEO, advertise or write a blog post for your organization. Keyword analysis is the cornerstone of any digital marketing strategy. It gives you high and low search volume keywords related to your product or service. To come up with the best plan to grow your company, a customized, long tail …

You want to kickstart your career as a digital marketer in Korea at an agency or startup. But it can be quite difficult to get your first position. The classic dilemma is that your employer expects new hires to be ready from day one, but new graduates often lack the working experience to do so. …

What are the most used social networks in Korea? That is a difficult questions to answer, it depends on many things! Do you count page views, time spent, on mobile app or desktop? Several different sources say different things, some take KakaoTalk into consideration and others don’t. This blog post is about: What are some …