SEOUL, May 20 (Korea Bizwire) — A 33-year-old office worker from the southwestern city of Gwangju who only gave his surname Lee had a unique experience of holding ancestral rites on social media last week. With photos of a memorial table set up at the house of the eldest son uploaded to the family’s KakaoTalk [...]
SEOUL, March 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, plans to introduce KakaoTalk for business purposes similar to the “Slack” messaging service in the U.S. Kakao Enterprise, Kakao’s subsidiary to provide artificial intelligence (AI)-based platform service for enterprises, is currently developing a new corporate messenger and is [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans in all age groups chose KakaoTalk as their favorite app, except for those in their teens, who picked YouTube as their preferred application. Consumer Insight, a South Korean research institution, conducted a survey of 3,228 people who use smartphones, in which more than 50 percent in all [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Female sanitary products will be distributed to those in need using KakaoTalk, a mobile messenger. The Seoul Metropolitan Government, in collaboration with Kakao Commerce Corp. and Yuhan-Kimberly Ltd., will be distributing free sanitary pads and other female products to 1,500 teenagers living in Seoul’s Gangseo District via KakaoTalk. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp. announced plans to introduce Global Signal, a program that blocks messenger phishing, on Wednesday. The program, once it detects that an unregistered friend has a foreign phone number, will automatically replace the profile picture with a globe icon on an orange background. Adding or tapping on the [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — An obstetrician who ordered a nurse to act on his behalf via the popular messaging app KakaoTalk, including giving an injection, was not found guilty on charges of criminal negligence. Even though the doctor was responsible for the care of the patient, his negligence put the fetus into serious [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The number of corporate messaging services through the country’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk is surging and forecast to reach 15 billion this year, data showed Thursday. In September 2015, the company launched the so-called Notification Talk, or Allim Talk, service that allows corporations such as shopping malls and credit [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s No. 1 mobile messenger KakaoTalk, on Monday kicked off its “unsend” feature that allows users to delete missent messages on its messaging app. Users can delete most mistakenly sent messages, photos, videos or emojis, whether they were read or not by the recipient, within [...]
SEOUL, Jun. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Although KakaoTalk still maintains its position as pretty much everyone’s favorite app for messaging in South Korea, a survey has found that an increasing number of teenagers are using messaging services provided by Facebook. According to Wiseapp, an app analytics company, the market share of Facebook’s messenger in terms [...]
SEOUL, March 8 (Korea Bizwire) — In the last two years, the amount of time spent on the YouTube app by South Koreans has tripled, beating out competition like online messaging service KakaoTalk and leading internet search portal Naver. According to mobile app research firm Wiseapp, South Koreans logged 7.9 billion minutes on the YouTube [...]