IKSAN, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Police arrested members of an illegal gambling ring last Sunday, partly aided by a major outage at mobile messenger KakaoTalk. Outside an illegal gambling den located within a commercial building in Iksan, North Jeolla Province, a man stood guard. When a stranger came close to the gambling den, he [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — The fire that broke out at a data center last weekend has resulted in a plunging number of KakaoTalk users while other chat applications have seen a major inflow of new users, a mobile app tracker said Tuesday. WiseApp Retail Goods conducted a survey of smartphone users over 10 [...]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Sinch AB (publ), a global leader in cloud communications and mobile customer engagement, today announced it is adding the KakaoTalk channel to its Conversation API which allows enterprise businesses to engage in seamless omnichannel interactions with consumers anywhere in the world. With this latest addition, Sinch is expanding [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., operator of South Korea’s most popular messaging app KakaoTalk, has decided to remove an external payment link from the Android version of the software, following a standoff with Google over the U.S. tech giant’s new in-app payment policy, sources said Wednesday. The standoff between the two companies [...]
SEOUL, July 7 (Korea Bizwire) — The latest software update for KakaoTalk, South Korea’s most popular mobile messaging app, remained suspended for a week on the Google Play store Thursday, following the refusal by tech giant Kakao Corp. to comply with Google’s new in-app payment policy. Google turned down Kakao’s submission application for the latest [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said Monday that about 300,000 sets have been sold and 220 billion emoticons have been sent among users through the messenger service since it launched its emoticon business ten years ago. KakaoTalk released its first emoticon in Nov. [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Younger office workers find it stressful that KakaoTalk, South Korea’s top mobile messenger, is being used for work, complaining that it undermines their work-life balance and privacy, a recent survey showed. Market analysis company Open Survey conducted a study of 1,000 office workers in their 20s to 50s, in [...]
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, Oct. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans are estimated to have spent nearly 30 hours on YouTube in September, a report showed Thursday, far surpassing other popular social media apps. South Korean users spent an average of 29.5 hours on Google’s video-sharing app last month, compared with 12 hours on KakaoTalk, the country’s top [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., operator of South Korea’s largest messenger app, KakaoTalk, plans to introduce a new food delivery service, raising worries over the impact it may bring to the country’s delivery industry. NowBusking, a Korean startup that Kakao has made a significant investment in purchasing 26 percent of its shares, [...]