Purchases made through Internet and mobile devices in South Korea continued to rise in October as use of smartphones have fully caught on with local consumers, government data showed Monday.
Transactions made by smartphones and tablets reached 6.33 trillion won ($5.83 billion) in the one-month period, up a solid 9.9 percent from a year earlier, according to data from Statistics Korea.
In particular, the total amount of mobile transactions, valued at 4.03 trillion won, accounted for 63.6 percent of all online purchases made in October.
