SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — KakaoStory, a photo-sharing service operated by Daum Kakao, was the most popular social networking service (SNS) in South Korea last year, a poll showed Tuesday, outpacing Facebook and other global platforms. According to the survey conducted by Hankook Research on 9,381 people aged between 13 and 69, 51.8 percent [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 13 (Yonhap) – South Korea’s top portal operator Naver Corp. said Monday it will seek to add more transparency to its management of privacy by having exclusive lawyers review and possibly reject warrants, amid rising concerns over the government’s censorship online. “Starting in April, Naver will adopt a new system in which lawyers [...]
SEOUL, April 9 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s financial regulator said Thursday that Internet-only banks are expected to be launched in South Korea in 2015 as it is working on detailed measures to encourage big name IT firms like Naver and Daum Kakao to invest in the online banking industry. Under the current financial laws, a [...]
SEOUL, April 3 (Korea Bizwire) – To raise awareness about endangered animals threatened with extinction in Korea, and promote the value of our environment, the Korean government and a mobile messenger provider will distribute emoticons featuring the animals. The Ministry of Environment and Daum Kakao, the operator of mobile messenger app KakaoTalk, announced on April 2 [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger, KakaoTalk, rolled out Tuesday its cab-booking mobile application for smartphone users, extending the service to a full lineup after it launched a similar platform for taxi drivers early this year. KakaoTaxi, available for downloading at Google Play for Android users, [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Global mobile messenger provider Viber said Monday it will appeal a South Korean court ruling that may ban its local operation, signaling a protracted battle with South Korea’s No. 1 mobile carrier, SK Telecom. “Because Viber believes the court’s decision was made in error, it is appealing the court’s [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao, a company formed by the merger of leading web portal Daum and mobile messenger service company Kakao Talk, saw increased growth in its mobile sector, which accounted for 53 percent of sales in Q4 of 2014 and 49 percent of sales in 2014. The figure in 2014 was [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao Corp., South Korea’s top mobile messenger and web portal operator, said Tuesday it will work with local game developers to tap into mobile publishing in China in a bid to expand its footing in the world’s most populous country. The company plans to set up a task [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — The Seoul city government said Friday it signed an agreement with Daum Kakao Corp., the operator of the top messaging app KakaoTalk, to provide Seoul citizens with real-time information on disasters via the messenger. The service would allow subscribers to quickly and conveniently get information on real-time situations and [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 15 (Korea Bizwire) — Naver Corp., South Korea’s top Internet portal operator, saw a sharp growth in its online video streaming business last year, closing the gap with the world’s largest video-sharing website YouTube in the local market, data showed Thursday. The number of unique visitors (UV) at Naver’s TV Cast spiked 52.4 [...]