Korea Joongang Daily
Korea JoongAng Daily

From keeping transit card balances to saving contacts, here's some tips before swapping your SIM card for SK Telecom users

SK Telecom has introduced a free SIM card replacement service, but users may face issues like lost transit card balances or missing contacts. Backup procedures for balances, contacts, and KakaoTalk chats are recommended before swapping SIM cards.

2025-04-29

KakaoTalk service briefly slows as Yoon impeachment announced

KakaoTalk, Korea's most widely-used messenger app, briefly faced problems shortly after President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment was announced, due to a sudden surge in traffic.

2025-04-04

KakaoTalk introduces School service for university students

KakaoTalk now has an exclusive community tab for university students, allowing them to connect with verified peers from their own universities and share a wide range of information.

2025-02-27

Explainer: Why is Toss suing Kakao? How a text message launched a legal war

Toss plans legal action against Kakao for restricting its promotional services, while Kakao denies the allegations, citing policy and system overload issues.

2025-02-05

KakaoTalk sees 600,000 daily gift exchanges, coffee vouchers and vitamins lead the pack

An average of 600,000 gifts are exchanged daily via KakaoTalk, Korea's largest messaging app, its operator said Sunday, with coffee gift vouchers and vitamins topping the list.

2024-12-23

Latest technical glitch hits KakaoTalk as users experience message delays

Some users of the messaging app KakaoTalk experienced technical difficulties on Friday morning, including message delays.

2024-09-20

Your boss can probably read your chats. What does Korean law say? And what can you do about it?

High-profile cases in Korea involving ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin and dog trainer Kang Hyung-wook have raised questions over the privacy of workplace chats.

2024-08-01

Users blocked from logging into KakaoTalk for an hour due to 'network error'

The desktop version of KakaoTalk, Korea's primary messaging app, was inaccessible for more than an hour for some users on Thursday morning. Operator Kakao attributed the interruption to a “network error.”

2024-07-18

Kakao fined $11.1 million for 2023 data breach

Kakao was fined $11.1 million for leaking the temporary serial numbers of more than 65,000 users. The company plans to contest the decision.

2024-05-23

Kakao suffers outage for six minutes, messaging and PC login affected

KakaoTalk, Korea’s dominant messenging app, didn’t work properly for six minutes on Monday afternoon while the system underwent an internal job.

2024-05-13