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comments that may be offensive are marked with a warning. According to a press release published by Kakao on
December 14, 2022, the quality of KakaoTalk comment culture has improved since the introduction of Safebot. From the second half of 2020 before the introduction of Safebot to 2022, comments containing profanity were reduced by one-third. In the same time period, the proportion of abusive comments reported by users among all comments decreased from 4.2% to 2.4%.
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to launch an investigation, where it was discovered that the user's serial numbers were being sent unencrypted to user's chat rooms, which was then exploited by hackers. In May 2024, KakaoTalk was fined 15.1 billion won ($ 11 million) for the leak, the highest penalty ever imposed on a Korean company
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KakaoTalk, a free mobile messenger application for smartphones, revealed its first profits of $ 42 million in 2012 and $ 200 million in revenue for 2013. With 93% of South Korea's population using KakaoTalk on their smartphones, Kakao Corp. has provided users a large range of services including games
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The app automatically synchronizes the user's contact list on their smartphones with the contact list on the app to find friends who are on the service. Users can also search for friends by KakaoTalk ID without having to know their phone numbers. The KakaoTalk service also allows its users to export
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called for a quick resumption of services, which over 90% of
Koreans use on a frequent basis. Services were partially restored within about 10 hours, but it took four days to repair servers and finally normalise operations. Messaging, as well as payments, banking, ride-hailing, maps, and games were
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Kakao has taken steps to make KakaoTalk a safer platform. In
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KakaoTalk provides free calling and messaging services. Like most of its type, the user is able to share photos, videos, voice messages, locations, webpage links, and contact information. Users are able to create one-on-one conversations, as well as group chats with no limit on users. It allows the
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January 13, 2021, KakaoTalk released an emoticon monthly fixed-rate service. "Emoticon Plus" is a service that allows unlimited use of Kakao's selected collection of emoticons for ₩6,900 per month. After subscribing to 'KakaoTalk Wallet', users purchase Emoticon Plus through the wallet platform
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A solitary chat room is a kind of open chat room, where many anonymous people gather to talk about specific topics, communicating only with images, without using text or emoticons. In other words, it is making a story out of images only. Similar chat rooms have sprung up as an open chat room that
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but has become a platform for the distribution of various third-party content and apps, including hundreds of games, which users can download and play with their friends through the messaging platform. Through the "Plus Friend" feature, users can follow brands, media and celebrities to receive
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as millions of people sought to confirm the safety of friends and family. KakaoTalk played an important role as a data network-based communication method; it successfully replaced disabled wired and wireless networks and helped connect the disaster-stricken.
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where no dominant mobile messenger service stands. KakaoTalk is forming strategic partnerships in
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exchanges food pictures without a word became popular. As the popularity of the celebrity themed "solitary chat rooms" grew, celebrities went into the chat room themselves.
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exclusive messages, coupons and other real-time information through KakaoTalk chatrooms. Users can also purchase real-life goods through the messenger's "Gifting" platform.
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