SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility, an affiliate of Kakao Corp., the operator of top South Korean messaging app KakaoTalk, plans to challenge the taxi van mobility service market through the expansion of Kakao T Venti, an 11-passenger van-hailing service. Sixteen former taxi drivers in Seoul recently became new drivers for Kakao T [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility said Tuesday it will develop navigation and call guidance services exclusively for ambulances. Kakao Corp.’s transportation unit will develop the service through participation in the “Artificial Intelligence-based Emergency Medical System Development” project supported by the Ministry of Science and ICT and the National IT Industry Promotion Agency. [...]
SEOUL, Mar. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The government, taxi businesses and a shared mobility operator agreed Thursday to permit app-based carpooling services during morning and evening commute hours. Taxi associations have been strongly opposed to the introduction of carpooling services by Kakao Mobility, the operator of South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app, claiming it will put [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s finance minister said Wednesday that local carpooling services will only get off the ground after an understanding is reached between Kakao Mobility Corp. and representatives from the taxi industry. The comments by Hong Nam-ki came nearly two weeks after a taxi task force decided to join a [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility Corp. announced on January 3 that it has signed a joint business agreement with Tago Solutions in order to provide high quality taxi services and improve the welfare of taxi drivers. With the signing of the agreement, the two companies are planning to introduce high-quality services with [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Taxi drivers saw a more than 37 percent rise in their income after Kakao Taxi, a mobile taxi-hailing service, was introduced three and a half years ago. Kakao Mobility announced on Monday that taxi drivers, who used to earn 110,894 won per day back in early 2016, now earn [...]
SEONGNAM, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean taxi drivers held a second round of demonstrations in front of the head office of Kakao Mobility situated in Pangyo, Seongnam in Gyeonggi Province yesterday, protesting against Kakao’s expected carpool service. Over 500 members of the “committee against illegal carpooling” – composed of four taxi-related labor unions [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Mobility, a South Korean firm that provides ride-hailing and driver-for-hire services, said Thursday that it has invested 1.5 billion yen (US$13.4 million) for a 3.4 percent stake in Japan’s largest taxi-hailing service, JapanTaxi Co., in a move to expand its services beyond the home market. The two firms [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — After only four days of poorer than expected results, South Korean cab summoning app Kakao T’s feature that hides the taxi caller’s desired destination from the driver until the pickup is agreed to has been withdrawn. This feature was introduced as a countermeasure against drivers who would cherry-pick taxi [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Speaking at the Seoul Plaza Hotel on March 13, Kakao Mobility CEO Jeong Joo-hwan said the Kakao subsidiary would introduce new features to Kakao T, its taxi-hailing app with 18 million users, that would make hailing a cab quicker in exchange for a commission fee. The two features planned [...]