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nowrap;">Initial release</th><td class="infobox-data">March 18, 2010<span class="noprint">; 15 years ago</span><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday dtstart published updated">2010-03-18</span>)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Operating_system" title="Operating system">Operating system</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/IOS" title="IOS">iOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/MacOS" title="MacOS">macOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Android_(operating_system)" title="Android (operating system)">Android</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bada_(operating_system)" title="Bada (operating system)">Bada</a>, <a href="/wiki/BlackBerry" title="BlackBerry">BlackBerry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_Phone" title="Windows Phone">Windows Phone</a>, <a href="/wiki/Windows_NT" title="Windows NT">Windows NT</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nokia_Asha" class="mw-redirect" title="Nokia Asha">Nokia Asha</a>, <a href="/wiki/WatchOS" title="WatchOS">WatchOS</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wear_OS" title="Wear OS">Wear OS</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Available in</th><td class="infobox-data">15 languages</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1214851843" /><div class="hidden-begin mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style=""><div class="hidden-title skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="background-color: transparent;">List of languages</div><div class="hidden-content mw-collapsible-content" style="">Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Indonesian, Thai, Vietnamese, Turkish</div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_categories#Categorization_approaches" title="Software categories">Type</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Messaging_app" class="mw-redirect" title="Messaging app">Messaging app</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;"><a href="/wiki/Software_license" title="Software license">License</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Freeware" title="Freeware">Freeware</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap;">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.kakaocorp.com/page/service/service/KakaoTalk?lang=ENG&tab=all">kakaocorp.com/service/KakaoTalk</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>KakaoTalk</b> (<a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a>: <span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hang">카카오톡</span></span>), commonly referred to as <b>KaTalk</b> (<a href="/wiki/Korean_language" title="Korean language">Korean</a>: <span title="Korean-language text"><span lang="ko-Hang">카톡</span></span>) in South Korea, is an instant messenger and online services platform operated by <a href="/wiki/Kakao" title="Kakao">Kakao Corporation</a>. It was launched in 2010 and the app is available on <a href="/wiki/Mobile_device" title="Mobile device">mobile</a> and <a href="/wiki/Personal_computer" title="Personal computer">desktop</a> platforms.<sup id="cite_ref-kakaocorp_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kakaocorp-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>KakaoTalk is the most popular <a href="/wiki/Instant_messaging" title="Instant messaging">instant messaging</a> app in South Korea, and since its debut in March 2010, the service has captured around 90 percent of the local market.<sup id="cite_ref-kakaocorp_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-kakaocorp-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Originally designed for messaging, it has evolved into becoming a <a href="/wiki/Super-app" title="Super-app">super-app</a> providing mobile payments and banking, taxi hailing, games and others.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Kakao" title="Kakao">Kakao</a> started with KakaoTalk, an instant messaging application in March 2010, and followed up with a social media network that integrated with the messenger app.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kakao’s next step into Korea’s Lifestyle habits was to tap into one of the mobile gaming markets. The addition of Kakaogames, allowed users to connect and play with their offline friends all through the convenience of the Kakao network.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since then, Kakao has continued to expand its platform by providing a gift shop called Kakao gift. KakaoTalk was nominated for the Most Innovative Mobile App Award at the Global Mobile Awards 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kakao Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by Kakao based in South Korea that allows users make mobile payments and online transactions. The payment service first launched on 4 September 2014 with integration with their messaging app, KakaoTalk, allowing people to request and send money to people in their contacts.<sup id="cite_ref-Kakao_Pay_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kakao_Pay-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Kakao has taken steps to make KakaoTalk a safer platform. In December 2020, KakaoTalk introduced Safebot, an AI-based comment-filtering function.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company also rolled out an artificial intelligence (AI) recommendation function for the gift section, aimed at making it easier for users to send gifts whilst searching for items.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Service">Service</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Free_calling_and_messaging_service">Free calling and messaging service</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Free calling and messaging service"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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.<sup id="cite_ref-Kakao_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kakao-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Users are able to create one-on-one conversations, as well as group chats with no limit on users. It allows the user to synchronize contact lists to connect to friends who also use the service, among other options that provide this service.<sup id="cite_ref-:980498_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:980498-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Search_for_friends_by_KakaoTalk_ID">Search for friends by KakaoTalk ID</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Search for friends by KakaoTalk ID"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 their messages and save them.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Plus_Friend">Plus Friend</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Plus Friend"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>KakaoTalk began as a <a href="/wiki/Instant_messenger" class="mw-redirect" title="Instant messenger">messenger service</a> 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.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through the "Plus Friend" feature, users can follow brands, media and celebrities to receive exclusive messages, coupons and other real-time information through KakaoTalk chatrooms. Users can also purchase real-life goods through the messenger's "Gifting" platform.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Kakao_Pay">Kakao Pay</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Kakao Pay"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Kakao Pay is a mobile payment and digital wallet service by <a href="/wiki/Kakao" title="Kakao">Kakao</a> based in South Korea that allows users make mobile payments and online transactions.<sup id="cite_ref-Kakao_Pay_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kakao_Pay-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The payment service first launched on September 4, 2014 with integration with their messaging app, KakaoTalk, allowing people to request and send money to people in their contacts.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Since its launch, Kakao has expanded into other financial services by launching their own online bank called KakaoBank and releasing their own debit card. In April 2017, KakaoPay Co., Ltd. was established to run the payment services operated by the company.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Emoticon_Plus">Emoticon Plus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Emoticon Plus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 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 rather than through in-app payment.<sup id="cite_ref-:693390_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:693390-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Company_business_model">Company business model</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Company business model"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Kakao" title="Kakao">Kakao</a></div> <p>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 and retail commerce.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="KakaoTalk_API">KakaoTalk API</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: KakaoTalk API"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>KakaoTalk made its platform API available for developers. A user administration-based API and a push-based API are currently available, and an analytic API is planned for release.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence">Influence</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Influence"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Korean">Korean</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Korean"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>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 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.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="International">International</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: International"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>KakaoTalk is available in 15 languages and used in over 130 countries.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On July 26, 2011, Kakao Corp. established Japanese Corp., Kakao Japan and appointed Cha-Jin Park as a representative. According to company officials, the app appears to be very actively used in Japan.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When a massive earthquake hit Japan on March 11, 2011, KakaoTalk's messaging traffic in Japan surged 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.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>KakaoTalk has targeted countries in <a href="/wiki/Southeast_Asia" title="Southeast Asia">Southeast Asia</a> where no dominant mobile messenger service stands. KakaoTalk is forming strategic partnerships in Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, as well.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, KakaoTalk began airing TV commercials in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam featuring <a href="/wiki/Big_Bang_(South_Korean_band)" class="mw-redirect" title="Big Bang (South Korean band)">Big Bang</a>. In the ads, local celebrities and BigBang appear together to promote KakaoTalk.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In late 2013, Indonesia became the country with the second-most users of KakaoTalk, after South Korea, with 13 million users and the potential to become KakaoTalk's largest market worldwide. The former co-CEO of KakaoTalk, Sirgoo Lee, stated "We grew our user base by more than 25 times in one year, so hopefully, we will continue at that rate." KakaoTalk has tailored their service to the local environment by collaborating with local designers and companies to generate "Indonesian-specific content".<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2014, KakaoTalk launched for <a href="/wiki/Nokia_Asha_500" title="Nokia Asha 500">Nokia Asha 500</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nokia_Asha_501" title="Nokia Asha 501">501</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nokia_Asha_series" title="Nokia Asha series">502, and 503</a> devices, expanding its reach to users of a wider audience.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=KakaoTalk&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: See 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