April 19, 2024

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[THE INVESTOR] The number of Korean users of Samsung Electronics’ mobile payment system Samsung Pay reached nearly 7 million in February, an industry tracker said on March 27.

According to the data compiled by WiseApp, some 6.94 million users of Android-powered smartphones used Samsung Pay at least once last month.

WiseApp said its study indicated that the number of Samsung Pay users has been increasing gradually over past months since the figure reached 4.47 million a year earlier.

The research was based on 23,000 Korean users of Android smartphones.

The industry tracker added that Samsung Pay use was centered during lunch times, with those in their 30s and 40s accounting for 28 percent and 27 percent, respectively. The corresponding number for those in their 20s stood at 20 percent, showing that users were equally distributed among various age groups.

By Song Seung-hyun and newswires (ssh@heraldcorp.com)