SEOUL, May 22 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s internet giant Kakao Corp. said Thursday it has spun off Daum, the country’s second-largest internet portal, in a bid to revive the platform’s competitiveness amid a declining market share. During a board of directors meeting, Kakao approved the plan to spin off the in-house team managing Daum [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum, South Korea’s second-largest internet portal, will temporarily close down comment fields on its entertainment news site in a drastic move designed to crack down on online expressions of defamation and hatred, the portal’s operator said Friday. Yeo Min-soo and Joh Su-yong, co-chief executives of Kakao Corp., which has [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator, Kakao Corp., said Friday it has installed artificial intelligence-recommended content on the first page of a portal website under its wing. Kakao, which controls Daum, the country’s No. 2 portal, said the recommendations tab was installed on the home page of Daum’s mobile [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Major South Korean web portal Daum has ramped up monitoring efforts on its comments section amid growing concerns over public opinion rigging and fake news. According to Kakao, web portal Daum has been suspending accounts from leaving a comment for two hours since this month when they are found to have [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao released on December 22 a list of the most searched keywords from January through November on its Daum portal in the categories of news, personalities and media. In news, “19th election”, “Park Geun-hye impeachment”, “Kim Joo-hyuk death”, “Pohang earthquake” and “cryptocurrency” were the most searched in order from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Automatic recommendation systems, in which a machine analyzes a user’s interests and shows news articles, video-clips, music, and other items which suit his or her taste, are becoming ubiquitous. The function was unthinkable even a few years ago on domestic machines. As mobile services whose contents need to be selectively [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The aftershocks of the earthquake in Gyeongju last year, recorded as the most powerful quake in South Korea since 1978, are still ringing through the minds of government officials, who announced on September 3 that a package of regulatory policies creating safety measures to guard against future earthquakes will [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) – A recent report has revealed that investigative authorities peeked into online communications information of over one million citizens in 2015 from Korea’s two major web portals – Naver and Daum. According to the 2016 Internet Transparency Report from the Clinical Legal Education Center (Korea University), the two Internet giants [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Silicon Valley is well known for fighting against government surveillance to protect its users. But what steps are Korean IT companies taking to safeguard their customers? Naver and Daum are Korea’s leading web portals, claiming approximately 75 percent and 15 percent the market, respectively, while Kakao is Korea’s dominant [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s most popular mobile messenger Kakao Talk, said Monday that it has teamed up with a Chinese conglomerate to bring its online webtoons to the rapidly-growing market. Under the deal with Huace Group, one of China’s leading entertainment groups, five of Kakao’s Daum [...]