Apr 21, 2013

What's KakaoTalk?

KakaoTalk  is a free mobile messenger application for smartphone with free text and free call features. It is available on iOS, Android, Bada OS, BlackBerry and Windows Phone
KakaoTalk provides free call and text messaging service. In addition, users can share diverse contents and information from photos, videos, voice messages, URL links to contact information. Both one-on-one chat and group chats are available over Wifi or 3G, and there are no limits to the number of friends to join in group chat. Recently, users in group chats can do free call. Furthermore, if someone doesn't want to call in group chats, he or she can push ignore button.
KakaoTalk automatically synchronizes with user’s contact list and find friends who are on the service. Users can also search friends by KakaoTalk ID without having to know each other's phone number. The KakaoTalk service also allows its users to export their messages and save them for future reference if the user so desires.
KakaoTalk was released on March 18, 2010 by Kakao Corp. Kakao Corp. was founded by Beom-Soo Kim, the former CEO of NHN Corporation (founder of Hangame, which merged with Naver.com to create NHN), the biggest IT company in South Korea. Kakao Corp. is based in Seoul, South Korea and Jae-Bum Lee and Sirgoo Lee are the current Co-CEOs. It reached 57 million users registered on August, 2012. An average of 24 million users are estimated to be using the app on a daily basis and over 3.4 billion messages are sent everyday

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