SEOUL, Nov. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao announced on November 10 that it would hold a mobile essay contest called “Super Short Story Contest” on its mobile content platform KakaoPage until November 22. Anyone who wants to become a writer can easily participate in the contest through their mobile devices as all the process from [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 08 (Korea Bizwire) –Daum Kakao Inc. will likely to benefit from the recent inclusion of its stock into the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI) Korea Index after an increase of its market value following a merger with Kakao Inc., in the form of easier financing. According to financial investment sources on November 7, [...]
![[Full Text] Consumer Privacy Will Be Daum Kakao’s Top Priority](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Kakaotalk.jpg "[Full Text] Consumer Privacy Will Be Daum Kakao’s Top Priority")
Thank you for coming here on such short notice. I’d like to say in this opportunity to our users that we are deeply sorry for what has happened. It was largely due to my ignorance and inexperience in the matter of data privacy. I thought, rather arrogantly, complying with laws and regulations while trying to [...]
![[Quote] Apology of KakaoTalk Leads to Another Controversy](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/이재웅.png "[Quote] Apology of KakaoTalk Leads to Another Controversy")
“You have to find fault with state power abuse, not with a company unable to resist the power. If you are not happy with it, there is no way for you but to pack up and go to some other country. I don’t like what has happened with KakaoTalk but the criticism to how the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao said on October 9 that it would introduce a “privacy mode” to its KakaoTalk mobile messenger service within the year’s end as a way to enhance security. With the new feature, the user will be able to encrypt conversations with his friends and delete messages immediately. To this end, [...]
![[Quote] Regulations on Electronic Financial Service Market to Be Eased](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mobile-payment_kobizmedia_KoreaBizwire-800x728.jpg "[Quote] Regulations on Electronic Financial Service Market to Be Eased")
“If the limitation on the amount of money received through Bank Wallet Kakao is due to the national regulation, I’ll try my best to lift it.” “It is expected that the future e-commerce industry is going to be led by non-financial companies. Therefore, the tight regulations on electronic financial transactions must be eased.” “Security programs [...]
SEOUL, Sep. 19 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, South Korea’s top messenger service provider, is about to initiate news services. Kakao will embark on a beta service as an application type at the outset of next week and, after overcoming its shortcomings through the test service, it will initiate the official news services within this year, [...]
![[Quote] New Daum Kakao Aims to Be Lifestyle Service Platform Provider](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Executive-Portrait_Sirgoo-Lee-Co-CEO-of-Kakao.jpg "[Quote] New Daum Kakao Aims to Be Lifestyle Service Platform Provider")
“With differentiated core competitiveness of Kakao and Daum, we will lead the mobile age and the next age after the mobile age. For it, we will expand our influential power not only in the domestic market but in the global market.” “The new Daum Kakao will grow as a lifestyle service platform provider putting together [...]