SEOUL, Feb. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Tuesday it shifted to the black in 2020 on the back of robust growth of its e-commerce services based on its messenger platform amid the pandemic. Net profit reached 167.1 billion won (US$149.2 million) last year on [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea said Tuesday it has teamed up with the mobile giant Kakao Corp. to provide local consumers with information on restaurants that have strictly followed sanitary guidelines to prevent the spread of the new coronavirus. The service offers locations of restaurants that have employees wear protective masks at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The sense of crisis felt by South Korea’s general insurance companies is growing as internet giant Kakao Corp. is pushing to establish the nation’s third digital general insurance company. Against this backdrop, existing insurance companies are accelerating efforts to speed up their digitalization. Hanwha General Insurance Co. introduced the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — People will now be able to gain easy access to information about the national licenses they have acquired via Naver App or KakaoTalk. Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp., the two major South Korean tech companies, signed an agreement with the Ministry of Employment and Labor to develop a new [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Makers, an order-based production platform under Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, announced Wednesday a new eco-friendly project called ‘Prime People’ to promote plastic recycling. Plastics are separated by their material and type before they are recycled, and small-sized plastics like bottle caps [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Seon-ho, a 29-year-old local office worker, decided to spend the end of the year with high school friends exchanging ‘useless’ gifts. “Last year, I got a pair of socks with Donald Trump’s face on it, with a slogan that said ‘Make America Great Again.’ It was absolutely shocking,” [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Taxi drivers across the country are being tasked with helping to track down criminal suspects and missing people. Kakao Mobility, the operator of South Korea’s largest taxi-hailing app Kakao T, is scheduled to sign a memorandum of understanding with the National Police Agency (NPA) early next year to cooperate [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 22 (Korea Bizwire) — SK Telecom Co., South Korea’s largest mobile carrier, said Tuesday it has partnered with Samsung Electronics Co. and Kakao Corp., the country’s top mobile messenger operator, to develop an artificial intelligence (AI) platform to help combat the COVID-19 pandemic. The telecom operator said the three companies formed a joint [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Enterprise Corp., an artificial intelligence (AI) unit of the country’s largest mobile messenger operator, Kakao Corp. said Tuesday it will strengthen its Internet of Things (IoT) business for smart homes and collective housing complexes in collaboration with smart home solution provider COMMAX Co. In 2017, Kakao Enterprise’s AI [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, on Wednesday announced new services that center on enhancing user convenience through its messenger platform. Kakao said it will first launch the so-called mobile wallet that stores and manages mobile documents, such as identification cards, certificates and driver’s [...]