Take that Apple. The team at TagStation announced Wednesday that the NextRadio app is now available in South Korea, allowing listeners to tune to local FM stations via the FM radio chip in their smartphones. TagStation has previously focused expansion of the NextRadio app in North America and Latin America, making South Korea its first country outside of the Americas.
South Korea has some of the highest smartphone penetration globally, with over 71% of the population using a smartphone at least once a month.
“We recognize how ingrained smartphone usage is in South Korea, with even higher adoption rates than in the U.S. We look forward to introducing to Korea’s mobile-first consumers the benefits of FM radio chip-enabled smartphones and the NextRadio brand. Developing a solid footprint in South Korea will help to strengthen our relationship with leading smartphone device makers, like LG, and forge new relationships as we collaborate with more smartphone makers to unlock the FM radio chip in their devices,” says Paul Brenner, President of TagStation, the power behind NextRadio.
