SEOUL, Sept. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s media regulator said Monday that Telegram has pledged to adopt a zero-tolerance policy and immediately remove deepfake pornography and other illegal content from its platform, in cooperation with local authorities. The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) said it had a face-to-face working-level meeting with Telegram on Friday, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s media regulator said Tuesday encrypted messaging app Telegram has complied with its request to remove certain deepfake pornographic content on its platform and apologized for its response to digital sex crimes. Numerous chat rooms suspected of creating and distributing deepfake porn content with doctored photos of Korean [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — The government and the ruling People Power Party (PPP) agreed Thursday to strengthen measures against deepfake sex crimes after a series of such pornography targeting young women on a messaging app sparked public outrage. During an emergency meeting at the National Assembly, the two sides also agreed to push [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — KT Corp., a major telecom company in South Korea, is scheduled to end its domestic telegram service in December, 138 years after its debut in the country, industry sources said Wednesday. KT, South Korea’s top fixed-line operator, posted on its webpage on Nov. 2 a notice that its 115 [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Worries over earthquakes are higher than ever in South Korea after another 4.5-magnitude aftershock struck Gyeongju Monday, a week after a record 5.8-magnitude earthquake thumped the same region. Amid the fears, however, Koreans are losing faith in the government’s earthquake alert system, with the Ministry of Public Safety and [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – Following the instructions of Jeong Tae-jin, chief of the Seoul Gangnam Police Station, the executives at the station all signed up for a mobile messenger called “Telegram”, which features enhanced security measures. According to CBS Nocut News, a local daily news, Chief Jeong directed the executives to use Telegram instead of [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Telegram will hold a security contest with award money of 300 million won. The company posted the message on its social networking service pages on November 4 to challenge the world’s hackers to breach its encryption system. The mobile messenger service became famous by the recent incident of a sudden [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Privacy anxiety among Korean mobile messaging users leads to more and more “cyber asylum” seekers who are mostly migrating into Telegram, a German encryption-based messaging app, which is more secure than peers in the market. Now the number of Kakao “defectors” to Telegram is nearing three million, setting a record-breaking [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Due to the recent controversy over the censorship on mobile messenger conversations, as many as 1.67 million users stopped using home-made mobile messengers including KakaoTalk, NateOn, and Line. In contrast, the number of users for “Telegram,” the mobile messenger app developed in Germany, has gained by a large margin. According [...]
Addition and Correction: The number of downloads for a ‘cyber asylum’ in Telegram recorded about 1~1.5 million in the previous week alone, according to the local internet traffic tracking institutes like Ranky.com and other sources available. And the surge in migrating into Telegram has edged out KakaoTalk as No.1 messaging app in South Korea. SEOUL, [...]