SEOUL, Nov. 27 (Korea Bizwire) – On November 26, the Seoul Metropolitan Government introduced a new taxi app called “Jibro”1 to be released next month, as well as a list of administrative measures to address shortages in late night transportation options. Seoul’s Jibro differentiates itself from other taxi-hailing services like KakaoTaxi in one key way: [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — The division at Kakao Corp responsible for its taxi-hailing and chauffeur services is being separated from South Korea’s largest messaging company, and will be launched as an independent entity next week. Starting in August, Kakao Mobility will operate as an independent entity, separated from its parent company Kakao Corp, [...]
SEOUL, Jul. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean telecommunications giant SK Telecom is considering the idea of launching an artificial intelligence-based taxi-hailing app, which the company sees as a chance to take advantage of its big data database. Though off to a late start, the IT company seems confident its service will prove popular, as [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean internet giants Naver and Kakao are battling to take the lead in O2O (online to offline) businesses. Due to a limited number of different kinds of business opportunities to tackle in the IT industry, the projects laid out by the two companies are often in conflict. However, since the two [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – KakaoTaxi, which is the currently the most popular online to offline (O2O) service, announced that it had reached 100 million accumulated calls as parent company Kakao Corp. celebrated the service’s first anniversary. More than 210,000 drivers and 8.6 million passengers are currently signed up as members of the service, and [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s most popular mobile messenger KakaoTalk, renamed itself and appointed a new chief executive officer on Wednesday, marking a turning point almost a year after its merger. At an emergency meeting, shareholders approved plans to rename itself Kakao and appoint nominee Rim Ji-hoon [...]
SEOUL, July 31 (Korea Bizwire) – With rapid growth in the character business that features collaborations between the emojis of mobile messengers like KakaoTalk of DaumKakao and Line of Naver, the two largest IT companies in Korea are enjoying the effect of killing two birds with one stone. As the “Kakao Friends” and “Line Friends” emojis raise [...]
SEOUL, July 6 (Korea Bizwire) — Daum Kakao, a leading Internet portal in South Korea, said Monday it plans to launch a charge-based luxury taxi-hailing service later this year, riding the popularity of an existing free application. KakaoTaxi has gathered a combined 5 million calls from users in just three months after its release, with [...]
SEOUL, May 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s telecom watchdog said Wednesday it will take a closer look into KakaoTaxi, a cab-hailing mobile application rolled out by the country’s top messenger operator Daum Kakao, on whether it has failed to abide by its terms of use related to location privacy. The Korea Communications Commission (KCC) said [...]
SEOUL, March 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Daum Kakao, the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger, KakaoTalk, rolled out Tuesday its cab-booking mobile application for smartphone users, extending the service to a full lineup after it launched a similar platform for taxi drivers early this year. KakaoTaxi, available for downloading at Google Play for Android users, [...]