Digital Verification
The nation's iPhone users are said to be more actively utilizing local mobile payment services through fingerprint identification than those who own Android phones.
Since May, the number of iPhone owners who have used mISP through fingerprint identification is much higher than those who have used Android devices, according to online payment service provider VP on July 13.
mISP refers to a mobile payment system that is used to confirm user identity via a mobile device. VP started to provide mISP based on fingerprint identification to certain mobile devices in May, going beyond the existing method using passwords. The service is currently available on nine models – the Galaxy S5, Galaxy S6, Galaxy S6 Edge, iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6+, Vega Secret, Vega Secret Note, and Vega Secret Up.
According to VP, iPhone users constitute 94 percent of the 200,000 people who have used its fingerprint-based mobile payment service from May. On the other hand, the figure for Samsung phone users is only 5 percent, and those who own Pantech phones represent merely 1 percent of the total.
Meanwhile, women in their 20s make up 50 percent of people who used the mobile payment service, and most of them used the service to purchase goods at social commerce sites like Coupang or Ticket Monster.