SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver, South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, said Thursday it has started a mobile payment service as part of a push into the fast-growing online platform business for e-commerce. Naver Pay, available starting Thursday, allows users to pay for an item online only with their Naver IDs, a stark [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Web portal operator Daum Kakao is set to introduce a service which enables the government, companies and the press to write comments for online news articles through official commenting channels specially dedicated to them. Named ‘Official Comments,’ the service will start in the third quarter of the year, after [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Taxi, a taxi reservation app which was released on March 31, is reigning over the Korean call-taxi market. According to IT industry representatives on June 14, more than 80,000 taxi drivers have downloaded the driver’s edition app, while 1,500,000 people have downloaded the app for customers. The accumulated [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Most of the major Korean IT companies use little renewable energy while consuming significant amounts of power, says Greenpeace. According to a report released by the international environmental advocacy group in June, the seven major IT companies in Korea including Naver, SK C&C, KT, LG CNS, LG Uplus, Samsung [...]
SEOUL, May 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s most popular messaging app KakaoTalk, said Friday it has acquired two Indonesia-based mobile platforms as part of its push for a global expansion. It signed an agreement with Path, a U.S. Internet service provider that runs its namesake social network service [...]
SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — For Yang Jun-mo, a 26-year-old graduate student in Seoul, visiting a neighborhood convenience store for light snacks is a daily routine. But every time, there is one thing that grabs his attention: his favorite brands of bread come with collectible stickers of emojis from free mobile messenger KakaoTalk. “It kind [...]
SEOUL, May 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea has trumped other major countries in terms of mobile application (app) usage, with smartphone owners in the country spending most of their time on social messengers, a report showed Thursday. The index gauging the mobile data usage by South Korean smartphone users reached 125 in the first [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecom watchdog said Wednesday it will take a closer look into KakaoTaxi, a cab-hailing mobile application rolled out by the country’s top messenger operator Daum Kakao, on whether it has failed to abide by its terms of use related to location privacy. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said [...]
SEOUL, April 22 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao, which operates South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Wednesday it is “considering” taking over U.S.-based messenger service Path, although no details have been decided. “It is true that our working-level team has reviewed the plan (to take over Path),” an official from Daum Kakao said. “However, [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao will start a webtoon service in China, introducing 40 Korean webtoons in Chinese on four Chinese online platforms, qq.com, U17, Cmread and Mileland. The company will also expand its business in the U.S.A and start to prepare for Japanese operations in the second half of the year, [...]