YouTube is the most used smartphone app in South Korea
Teenagers all the way up to people in their 40s in South Korea spend the most time on the YouTube app
By Jun Ji-hye
Google’s YouTube has become the most-used smartphone app in Korea, with users here having spent an average of 882 minutes last month watching video clips, according to a survey released Tuesday.
According to Seoul-based app analytics firm WiseApp, those in their teens to their 40s spent the most time on YouTube when using their smartphones.
For those in their 50s, YouTube was the second-favorite app after the nation’s largest mobile messenger app, Kakao Talk.
The analytics firm released the survey after analysing the patterns of app usage in April.
Among others, those in their teens appeared to have used the video-sharing website the most, the firm said, noting they spent a cumulative 7.6 billion minutes on YouTube last month.
“The time spent was more than the entire amount of time teenagers spent in their second-, third-, fourth-, fifth- and sixth-favorite apps,” an official from WiseApp said.