SEOUL, Apr. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — KakaoTalk, South Korea’s leading mobile messenger, saw its number of users fall below 45 million for the first time in 22 months last month, data showed Tuesday. The application had 44.97 million monthly active users (MAUs) in March, down more than 221,000 from the previous month, according to the [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao has improved its Memorial Profile feature in the latest update (v10.5.0) of KakaoTalk, enhancing user autonomy in this regard. The Memorial Profile allows KakaoTalk users to mourn and reminisce about the deceased. Following the update, users can now choose to switch to a posthumous Memorial Profile and appoint a [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao, South Korea’s largest emoji marketplace, has decided to maintain its policy of prohibiting AI-generated emojis from being incorporated into KakaoTalk. This decision comes after discussions with various industry stakeholders, who expressed concerns that AI-generated emojis could potentially disrupt the existing ecosystem of human creators and may pose challenges in [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp. said Wednesday it has released a new archiving feature for inactive chatrooms in its mobile messenger KakaoTalk through the most recent update. The newly introduced service archives and hides inactive chatrooms that the user does not wish to leave. Archived chatrooms will not send out new notifications [...]
SEOUL, July 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Users of KakaoTalk, South Korea’s most popular mobile messenger, picked Munyongi as this year’s rising emoticon star. The selection followed a two-week vote that began on June 19, according to Kakao Corp., the operator of the messaging app. Each user was able to vote once per day. A total [...]
SEOUL, June 7 (Korea Bizwire) – The “Leave Chat Room Quietly” function in KakaoTalk, South Korea’s top mobile messenger, has gained immense popularity since its launch a month ago. According to Kakao Corp., the operator of KakaoTalk, the new function was activated by around 2 million users from May 10-31, after it was added to [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top messenger app operator Kakao Corp. said Tuesday it has introduced “memorial profiles” to KakaoTalk to keep deceased users in remembrance. Previously, KakaoTalk profiles of deceased people that were locked for not being accessed for more than a year or their phone being deregistered would be set [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea’s dominant messaging app KakaoTalk, announced that it has added a new function enabling users to “sneak out” of team chat rooms without informing other team members. Team chat rooms are usually opened by team leaders who use a pay-based data backup service. [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — The amount of time Korean people spent on the country’s most popular mobile messenger KakaoTalk was restored to the normal level two months after it suffered extensive service disruptions stemming from a fire at a data center, industry data showed Tuesday. Users spent an average of 32.18 minutes using [...]
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 [...]