SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – The telecommuting, online education, and telemedicine sectors have witnessed substantial growth in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Alongside these trends, online ancestral rites are also gaining popularity. Leading up to Chuseok, the Korean Thanksgiving holiday, memorial parks across the nation saw a surge in visitors paying their respects to [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom has launched a 3D personal space service called “Ifhome” on its metaverse service Ifland. The service allows users to decorate their space and record their daily lives. Ifhome has a capacity of 31 people, while the existing “land” has been renamed “ifsquare” to provide a communication space [...]
SEOUL, May 3 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Digital Foundation, a digital arm of the Seoul city government, on Tuesday launched a new service that allows users to raise pets in Metaverse Seoul, a metaverse ecosystem for administrative services. Users can adopt 10 kinds of virtual pets, such as dogs, cats, and rabbits, in the [...]
SEOUL, April 30 (Korea Bizwire) —The use of the virtual world known as the metaverse has been proposed as a potential tool to alleviate the psychological strain on students subjected to school violence during police investigations, according to a recent publication titled “Police Investigation of School Violence Victims Using Metaverse,” featured in the journal Police [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — SM Entertainment, a K-pop powerhouse, said Wednesday it has acquired a local post-production company to reinforce its metaverse and content business capabilities. SM said it acquired a 51 percent stake in Studio Clon a week ago through Studio Kwangya, the agency’s subsidiary specializing in the production of content for [...]
SEOUL, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — The Ministry of Science and ICT said Tuesday it will invite regional for-profit and non-profit organizations to participate in a project designed to promote the creation of a metaverse work environment. The project, dubbed “Metaverse Nomad,” was introduced last year on a trial basis, and more than 300 employees from [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s culture ministry said Tuesday it will launch a metaverse version of the King Sejong Institute, a government-funded Korean language education brand, this year to help foreigners learn the language anytime and anywhere. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it will operate the service jointly with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government on Monday launched the first stage of Metaverse Seoul, which provides a variety of services. The city government said that it was the first major city around the world to establish a metaverse platform and launch a service in the public sector. The services offered [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s unification ministry on Wednesday said it has virtually recreated lost villages in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that existed prior to the 1950-1953 Korean War through a metaverse platform. Some 400 villages were known to have existed in the DMZ, among which the ministry picked the largest ones [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced that its ‘Metaverse Seoul’ was named as one of the Best Inventions of 2022 by the U.S. news magazine TIME. Metaverse Seoul was recognized as the only case of innovation among public inventions in the metaverse category. It is a metaverse platform established for [...]