SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corporation, South Korea’s mobile behemoth, revealed Thursday that it had released a new mobile transportation application called ‘KakaoMetro’. The new app is a complete overhaul of an existing Android app, Subway Navigation, which Kakao acquired back in 2015. Kakao also released an iOS version of the new app. [...]
SEOUL, June 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Google is facing complaints from Kakao, which claimed that the global tech giant is discriminating against its mobile applications. The issue was brought forward when Kakao’s latest mobile gaming application, O.N.E. for Kakao, didn’t appear in the Google Play Store’s search results. O.N.E for Kakao was officially launched on [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean internet giants Naver and Kakao are battling to take the lead in O2O (online to offline) businesses. Due to a limited number of different kinds of business opportunities to tackle in the IT industry, the projects laid out by the two companies are often in conflict. However, since the two [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s most popular mobile messenger Kakao Talk, said Monday that it has teamed up with a Chinese conglomerate to bring its online webtoons to the rapidly-growing market. Under the deal with Huace Group, one of China’s leading entertainment groups, five of Kakao’s Daum [...]
SEOUL, March 7 (Korea Bizwire) – At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a movie premise but actually realizable technology, it has been pointed out that Korean companies need to buckle down as they are lagging behind global IT giants. According to a report issued by the Institute for Information and Communications [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao announced that it has released a new version of its online fund raising service ‘Heemanghae’ (meaning hope) now dubbed ‘Gachi Gachi with Kakao’ (together raising value), which is designed for mobile devices. ‘Heemanghae’ was an application that allowed users to create fundraising campaigns and collect or make donations. [...]
SEOUL, Feb.21 (Korea Bizwire) – From now on, Kakao will offer users the ability to view electricity bills through the mobile messenger KakaoTalk, and pay them through KakaoPay. Kakao announced that it will be launching ‘KakaoPay Bills’, an electronic bill payment and presentment (EBPP) service based on mobile messenger platforms. Kakao emphasized that it is [...]
SEOUL, Feb.16 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, the company behind the popular KakaoTalk messaging app, is launching a distribution service in which products are manufactured after having been pre-ordered. The company’s goal is to prevent resources from being wasted, and help boost revenues for manufacturers with good ideas. Kakao announced that it will start a service [...]
SEOUL, Feb.4 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, the Korean internet pioneer, has selected ‘Hair Shop’ as its first O2O (online to offline) business in the beauty sector. Kakao plans to expand its O2O business by releasing new services in the relief driver business and the hair industry. According to industry analysts, Kakao is planning to launch [...]
SEOUL, Jan.12 (Korea Bizwire) – With giant companies such as CJ E&M and Kakao jumping into popular culture businesses, huge changes in the television and music industries are expected to follow. Kakao, the company behind the most popular mobile messenger in Korea, announced that it will be taking over Loen Entertainment for 1.87 trillion won. [...]