SEOUL, Nov. 17 (Korea Bizwire) –Naver Line has jumped ahead of its fellow South Korean instant messaging service KakaoTalk by upgrading its text delete capabilities. Previously, deleting a wrongly sent text would only make the mistake disappear on the sender’s screen, but the message would remain on the recipient’s device. After the announcement made by [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Lim Ji-yeon, a working mother of two living in western Seoul, is constantly haunted by mobile phone messages from her clients, which often come even after office hours and disrupt her free time and private life. “Can’t we just make after-hour messaging illegal so that it would at least [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 18 (Korea Bizwire) – Almost 30 million emoji sales later, we have some insight into why the Kakao Friends emoji characters are so popular. On September 17, an analysis into the popularity of the beloved emojis by professor Kim Jun Su from Hannam University found a correlation between purchase intent and factors like [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The battle for AI speaker dominance is about to get heated as Naver and Kakao are sending out their very best “spokespersons” to the marketing front. According to tech industry insiders, Naver is planning to release its AI speaker “Wave” before the year is up. Concurrently, Kakao is making [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Thursday it has partnered with tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. in the artificial intelligence (AI) sector to tap deeper into the burgeoning industry. Kakao I, the company’s AI platform, will be integrated with Samsung’s voice recognition program, Bixby, to allow [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – The labor ministry plans to draw up guidelines on the after-work use of mobile messaging and other forms of social networking services, an official said Thursday, amid growing complaints about companies giving work-related orders via social media during off hours. A growing number of people have complained about getting [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Social network services, particularly messaging apps such as KakaoTalk with popular group chat features, are becoming one of the most popular means of communication among South Korean lawmakers, replacing e-mail and text messaging. Group chat features, which allow people to create a chat room and invite others to have [...]
SEOUL, April 19 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean messaging giant Kakao is accelerating its efforts to expand the online presence of its much-loved emoticons by branching out into other services including Kakao TV and web portal Daum, as Kakao Friends has become one of the most recognized brands in the country. Speaking to the press [...]
SEOUL, April 10 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s top mobile messenger operator Kakao Corp. said Monday it has joined forces with scholars to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology as part of a broader effort to tap deeper into the prospective market. Under an agreement with Seoul National University, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korean internet giant Kakao revealed plans yesterday to accelerate the development of its own artificial intelligence platform, which will be adopted in its messaging app KakaoTalk and online music streaming service Melon. As interest in AI technology continues to grow, the latest move from Kakao is expected to [...]