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 [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Korea Bizwire) – “There are many ‘touchpoints’ in the Kakao platform, and all of (our users’) life moments can be turned into a marketing opportunity,” said Kakao CEO Jimmy Lim, during Tuesday’s Business Conference held in Seoul with advertisers. The conference was arranged to declare Kakao’s newfound commitment to improving its disappointing [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – KakaoTalk, the most popular mobile messaging platform in Korea, has finally done away with its “recommended friends” service, a function that recommended adding as a friend any individual whose phone number was saved in a phone’s contacts list. On October 19, industry sources said that Kakao added a service [...]
SEOUL, June 4 (Korea Bizwire) – The government recently began an investigation into Kakao, the corporation behind both KakaoTalk and the Daum internet portal, after it was discovered that the company had been using URL links shared in KakaoTalk conversations as data to configure its Daum search algorithms. Citizen organizations and users alike have been criticizing Kakao after [...]
SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – More South Koreans are using Naver Corp.’s group-interaction service BAND and Instagram, although Facebook is still the most popular social networking service (SNS) platform in the country, a survey showed Tuesday, signaling a shift in the local SNS landscape. According to the survey conducted by Digieco, an economic research institute run [...]
SEOUL, May 2 (Korea Bizwire) — As the number of working couples and single-person households increases, new mobile applications that offer help with housework are on the rise. It’s a new form of Online-To-Offline (O2O) commerce followed by existing mobile applications for delivery, transportation, and real estate businesses. Two dozen applications, such as Miso (Smile) [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 29 (Korea Bizwire) – With Kakao’s expansion into corporate messaging, the ways in which people consume business information are changing. Consumers no longer have to receive informational texts, call customer support or go through company webpages for information. These types of communication can all be handled by KakaoTalk, Kakao’s flagship messenger. Kakao Corporation [...]