SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three mobile carriers on Tuesday launched an upgraded text messaging service available on Samsung smartphones in a bid to challenge the nation’s leading mobile messaging app Kakao Talk. The three carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — said they started the new [...]
SEOUL, April 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp., a major mobile messenger service provider, said Friday it issued some 500,000 debit cards during the 90 days since the cards were launched. The operator of Kakao Talk began the debit card service in January to enter the offline payment business. While Kakao Corp. was already working with commercial banks and credit card firms, it decided to issue its own cards to enable offline use by more [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – YouTube was the most popular mobile app among South Korean smartphone holders in their teens and 20s, while those in their 40s and 50s used Naver and KakaoTalk the most, according to a new survey. The survey conducted by Wise App and released on Tuesday revealed that among Android users, [...]
SEOUL, Nov.1 (Korea Bizwire) – Market research company Wiseapp publicly disclosed the results of a nationwide survey of 23,000 Android OS-based smartphone users on October 31, which revealed YouTube has overtaken messaging app Kakao Talk as the most used service. The results of the same survey that was conducted last year had Kakao Talk in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 30 (Korea Bizwire) – The Seoul Metropolitan Government revealed on October 30 that 5,980 citizens had signed up for its text-based water bill notification system as of the end of September. The paperless initiative was rolled out in June and provides those registered with relevant information regarding their water bill, such as the [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – A fifth-grade class’s list of suggestions on eliminating vulgarity and typos from the country’s most popular online messaging app Kakao Talk was acknowledged by company CEO Lim Ji-hoon, who said that the ideas are being considered. Last month, Lee Ki-tae and his class of fifth-graders at Wonho Elementary in [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 4 (Korea Bizwire) – Automatic recommendation systems, in which a machine analyzes a user’s interests and shows news articles, video-clips, music, and other items which suit his or her taste, are becoming ubiquitous. The function was unthinkable even a few years ago on domestic machines. As mobile services whose contents need to be selectively [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Messaging giant Kakao and search engines Google and Naver are the three largest mobile app makers in South Korea, a new industry report has revealed. Among Android smartphone users in the country, Kakao was branded the most popular mobile app maker both in the number of users and the average [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean messaging giant Kakao is accelerating its efforts to expand the online presence of its much-loved emoticons by branching out into other services including Kakao TV and web portal Daum, as Kakao Friends has become one of the most recognized brands in the country. Speaking to the press [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Talk is South Korea’s most popular messaging application, boasting 50 million active monthly users around the world. Among the dozen or so notification sounds offered by the app is “Obama Talk”, which was taken from an actual speech made by former U.S. president Barack Obama, where he mentioned [...]