SEOUL, May 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Kakao Entertainment announced on May 30 that its web novel and webtoon platform, KakaoPage, has been the highest-grossing book app in South Korea for the past two years, citing data from the market research platform Sensor Tower. According to Sensor Tower, from May 11, 2022, to May 10, 2024, KakaoPage [...]
SEOUL, March 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Entertainment Corp. plans to close the Korean unit of Tapas Entertainment, a North American webtoon and webnovel platform, next month, industry sources said Tuesday. The entertainment arm under tech giant Kakao has recently notified Tapas Entertainment’s employees of its plan to liquidate the Korean unit and offered consolation [...]
SEOUL, May 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Kakao Entertainment, an entertainment arm of Kakao Corp., said Tuesday it has acquired U.S.-based online comic app Tapas and fiction app Radish for US$510 million and $440 million, respectively. The subsidiary of Kakao Corp, the operator of South Korea’s top mobile messenger KakaoTalk, said the latest deals could help [...]