The most popular messaging app in South Korea is called KakaoTalk. It offers an array of free call and text messaging services. It also has the ability to share photos, videos and other information.

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There’s something about messaging in Asia. Today, Korean mobile messaging service Kakao Talk announced it has passed 100 million registered, becoming the latest messenger in the region to pass the ...

South Korea's biggest messaging app is struggling to keep profits up despite increasing popularity, signalling what could be a problem for the global messaging sector. Philip Iglauer is an American ...

Daum Kakao, the newly merged Korean entity behind Kakao Talk, has introduced a new end-to-end encryption feature on the chat app following controversy around user data in recent months. The company is ...

King has taken its hugely popular Candy Crush Saga to the Kakao Talk mobile messaging platform in South Korea. The move is significant because Kakao Talk, a mobile messaging platform that has replaced ...

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Kakao has started compensating businesses and its KakaoTalk messenger users for last October's data center fire. On December 29, Kakao announced a damage support plan with the ‘1015 Damage Support ...

Chatting on Kakao Talk will become more secure with a new hidden chat feature that has end-to-end encryption for all messages. Secret Chat is a chat room that requires messages to be read with a ...

Kakao is preparing a new version of 'Friend Talk' that allows businesses (corporations) to send advertising messages without adding friends (channels) on KakaoTalk. On the 5th, according to industry ...

Path announced Thursday that it has been acquired by Daum Kakao, the makers of the popular Kakao Talk messaging app. Path and Path Talk will continue to operate, but focus on the market in Southeast ...

The number of Kakao Talk users is expected to break the 100 million mark this month, three years and three months after its launch in 2010. There were some 95 million Kakao Talk users as of June 4.