South Korea's chat GPT users reach 5.26 million, up more than seven-fold in one year - South Korea reports

It has been revealed that the number of users of the "Chat GPT" application, a conversational generative artificial intelligence (AI) developed by the US company OpenAI, reached 5.26 million in South Korea in October.
This was revealed in a survey conducted by Wise Up Retail Goods (hereinafter referred to as Wise Up), a Korean market research company.
Wiseup is a service for Android and iOS smartphone owners.
The survey was conducted on Koreans who use chat apps. There are approximately 51.2 million smartphone users in Korea. The survey revealed that approximately 10% of all smartphone users use chat apps.
It turns out. This is more than seven times the number of users in October 2023, when the number was 720,000. In relation to this, Wiseup reported that as of October, the number of users per person in chat GPT apps
The average usage time was 51.6 minutes, up about 20 minutes from the same month last year. The average number of days per person used the service per month also increased from 2.4 days in the same month last year to 5.7 days.