Namkoong Whon, co-CEO of Kakao, stepped down on Wednesday to take responsibility for the recent service disruptions including its popular messenger app KakaoTalk due to a data center fire and vowed to complete a backup system within two months to prevent a recurrence. “Currently, most of our services have been normalized. We have caused great inconvenience for a lengthy period of time as our response did not meet the expectations of users,” Namkoong said during a press conference at its office in the Pangyo area of Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province.
Both the administration and opposition parties in South Korea announce their plans to take legislative action in connection to the KakaoTalk outage that affected users and the country's economic activities.
The presidential office announced a plan to establish a cybersecurity task force team to thwart threats and risks that can disrupt the nation s key infrastructure after disruptions.
SEOUL (AFP) – More than 50 million users of South Korea’s biggest mobile messenger app KakaoTalk experienced major service disruptions after a fire at a data centre, prompting a company apology and calls for government-led prevention plans yesterday. Kakao’s flagship messaging application is installed on around 90 per cent of phones in South Korea and […]
President Yoon Suk-yeol said Monday the antitrust watchdog is looking into the issue of top mobile messenger KakaoTalk dominating Korea s mobile messenger market, after the service.