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, [...]
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 [...]