SK Telecom, KT and Kakao announced on Sep 4 at the Korea Press Center in Seoul their plans for South Korea's "AI for All" programme, which would give each of the country's 52 million citizens free, un…
South Korea will launch free agentic AI services for all citizens by the end of the year, enabling tasks such as reservations and payments through mobile messengers, phone calls, and text messages, wi…
Kakao Corp. announced on August 21 that its board approved a proportional spinoff into KakaoAI and KakaoX, with a split ratio of 0.36 for KakaoAI and 0.64 for KakaoX. KakaoX will focus on virtual asse…
Kakao Corp plans to spin off its chat app-based platform business into a new company, tentatively named KakaoAI, and relist it on the Korea Exchange on Jan 27, 2027, following a Jan 1 split. KakaoAI w…
Kakao Corp. will split into two listed companies, Kakao AI and Kakao X, with the board approving a demerger on Friday. Kakao AI will house KakaoTalk and AI, advertising, and commerce businesses, while…
Kakao Corp. announced Friday it will split its major businesses, including KakaoTalk, into two entities, KakaoAI and KakaoX, to strengthen its AI capabilities. The spinoff, approved at a board meeting…
Kakao, the operator of KakaoTalk, has upgraded the voice generation technology in its omni AI model Kanana-o, allowing users to control tone, speed, emotions, and accents through natural-language text…
CI Guarantee, South Korea's leading construction guarantee provider, will launch an AI-powered digital platform on Aug. 1 that enables mobile guarantee applications via KakaoTalk, an AI contract-draft…
Meta made its Business AI agent available worldwide on June 3, bundling it into WhatsApp's premium business tiers and charging large companies by the token. The agent, which answers questions, recomme…
OpenAI has restored ChatGPT access on WhatsApp in the European Economic Area after Meta removed the chatbot in January 2026, and expanded the AI assistant to KakaoTalk in South Korea and Viber in sele…
A developer built a progressive web app for 31 Korean cities using React and Leaflet, sharing lessons from the project. Key takeaways include using Vite SSG for Korean SEO, Leaflet over Mapbox for cos…