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The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on Wednesday that a pilot program featuring three autonomous taxis will commence, marking the first of its kind in the country. The taxis will operate from 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. on weekdays.
Some users of the messaging app KakaoTalk experienced technical difficulties on Friday morning, including message delays.
Police have opened an investigation into Korean mobile payment service Kakao Pay for allegedly allowing 54 billion instances of customers' personal data to be leaked without their consent to Chinese mobile payment service Alipay.
Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Upstage said Wednesday it has signed an initial agreement with Kakao's health care unit to jointly develop a digital health care service using a large language model (LLM).
Kakao Entertainment will hold its annual Melon Music Awards (MMA) at Incheon's Mohegan Inspire Entertainment Resort, the content company said Monday.
Two former Kakao executives were indicted without detention on multiple charges related to Kakao Entertainment’s 2020 acquisition of production studio Baram Pictures.
Kakao, the operator behind Korea’s dominant messenger service, is downsizing noncore assets irrelevant to its primary businesses in the KakaoTalk app or AI.
An investigation by the Financial Supervisory Service found that Kakao Pay illicitly transferred user data to Alipay for processing as the Korean service sought to be added as a payment method in the Apple App Store.
Kakao founder Kim Beom-su was indicted for stock manipulation in connection to SM Entertainment's acquisition. Prosecutors allege interference with stock market and failure to report stock purchases.
Messenger giant Kakao posted 134 billion won in operating profit for the April-June period thanks to the robust performance of its platform division.
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