SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao has announced that it will be expanding its News Funding crowd funding service into a new service called Story Funding. Story Funding allows creators of content other than news such as books, music, movies and new technologies to receive funding. The company’s goal is to expand its [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — When Kakao Corp. launched its mobile chat application KakaoTalk in South Korea in early 2010, what lured users most was the fact that it was free. Until then, sending and receiving text messages via a phone had been considered something that you had to pay for. The instant messenger, [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s most popular mobile messenger KakaoTalk, renamed itself and appointed a new chief executive officer on Wednesday, marking a turning point almost a year after its merger. At an emergency meeting, shareholders approved plans to rename itself Kakao and appoint nominee Rim Ji-hoon [...]
SEOUL, Sept 2. (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao has announced the release of the official version of a new smartphone application called ‘Kakao Hello’. Kakao Hello is an app that blocks spam numbers, manages contacts, and provides other convenient features related to voice calls. By logging in one’s Kakao account, the pictures of contacts can [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Communications launched a new type of news service which makes news by utilizing crowdfunding on the Internet. The new scheme called news funding raises money from many people on the Internet to produce news items. On its website (http://m.newsfund.media.daum.net/), people contribute some money to good ideas that they want [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Communications has started providing map services for North Korea from 5 pm on August 29. This is the first occasion among domestic online portals. The map services are available on desktop computer, mobile web, and mobile app. Until now, users could find important landmarks only such as Pyungyang, Kaesong, [...]
![[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 [...]
SEOUL, South Korea, Jul. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — Sol Studio of Daum Communications (035720.KQ) (CEO Sae-hoon Choi) has rolled out the latest version of SolCalendar for all users around the world. SolCalendar 1.5 includes ▶ To-do and To-do Widget ▶ Google Maps & Foursquare Integration ▶ Countdown, Date & Shortcut widgets ▶ Simple Stickers Package [...]
![[Feature] Homegrown Online Retail Brand “11st” Maintains Top Position](http://koreabizwire.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/11번가.jpg "[Feature] Homegrown Online Retail Brand “11st” Maintains Top Position")
SEOUL, June 25 (Korea Bizwire) – Korea’s homegrown online retail brand 11st is growing by leaps and bounds. According to data released by Korean Click, 11st took the No. 1 position among online retail sites in terms of unique visitor numbers for the month of May. Its rank in all Internet website was No. 4 after [...]
SEOUL, May 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, Korea’s largest mobile messenger service operator, decided to merge with Daum, the second-largest Internet portal in Korea after Naver, to overcome the limitation in growth within the domestic mobile industry. On May 26, Lee Sir-goo, CEO of Kakao, admitted the criticism by the business circle that it lacks [...]