SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) – Chatting+, a joint messaging service run by South Korea’s three mobile carriers, has become possible for users to cancel messages that they have already sent. The three carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — said Monday that they will add the ‘sent message cancellation’ [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — An upgraded text messaging service jointly developed by South Korea’s three major carriers to compete with the nation’s top mobile messaging app KakaoTalk is expected to make forays into the corporate messaging market. In a business environment where short messaging service (SMS) is generating virtually no sales, the telecom [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s three mobile carriers on Tuesday launched an upgraded text messaging service available on Samsung smartphones in a bid to challenge the nation’s leading mobile messaging app Kakao Talk. The three carriers — SK Telecom Co., KT Corp. and LG Uplus Corp. — said they started the new [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics Co. has said it is working with U.S. Internet giant Google Inc. to offer improved messaging experiences that would allow users to have group chats and video calls and transfer large files without the need for additional apps. The collaboration will ensure that [...]
Addition and Correction: The number of downloads for a ‘cyber asylum’ in Telegram recorded about 1~1.5 million in the previous week alone, according to the local internet traffic tracking institutes like Ranky.com and other sources available. And the surge in migrating into Telegram has edged out KakaoTalk as No.1 messaging app in South Korea. SEOUL, [...]