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KakaoTalk’s “Recommended Friends” Service Under Fire

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 [...]

Cyberbullying Soars through Mobile Messengers: Data

SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – The number of cyberbullying cases observed by local schools jumped in 2015 from three years earlier, data showed Monday, in line with the sharp increase in mobile messenger users. According to the data compiled by the parliament’s education committee, the number of cyberbullying cases monitored by schools came to [...]