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    • Wednesday, 19 October, 2022
      Kakao’s co-chief resigns over messenger app service outage

      South Korea’s presidential office says blackout a matter of ‘national security’

    • Wednesday, 3 November, 2021
      South Korea’s biggest mobile payment app shares double on IPO

      Kakao Pay lists two months later than planned amid regulatory concerns about frothy valuations

    • Monday, 9 August, 2021
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      Kakaobank: foreigners rush in where locals fear to tread Premium content

      The Korean digital lender is profitable — but there is reason to be wary

    • Friday, 6 August, 2021
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      KakaoBank becomes South Korea’s largest retail lender as shares surge

      Glittering debut for online-only bank raises concerns over valuations in sector

    • Tuesday, 8 September, 2020
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      South Korean retail investors scramble for a piece of Kakao Games IPO

      Debut attracts orders of about 1,500 times shares on offer in what one fund manager called ‘herd behaviour’

    • Monday, 1 April, 2019
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      The price of acquiring NXC’s video gaming business could reach as high as $14bn

    • Wednesday, 30 January, 2019
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      Concern in Korea grows over possible rival bid from China’s Tencent

    • Thursday, 20 December, 2018
      Korean taxi drivers strike over launch of ride-sharing service

      Messenger company Kakao postpones debut to January 1 in face of stiff resistance

    • Friday, 19 January, 2018
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      Best of Lex: your weekly round-up

      Carillion, Apple, Kakao, Walmart, Disney, CBS/Viacom, UBM/Informa, Bill Ackman/Pershing

    • Thursday, 18 January, 2018
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      Kakao Corp: up like a rocket Premium content

      Expanding into other markets or acquiring more content will be expensive

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      South Korea’s Kakao raises $1bn for overseas AI investments

      Messaging app boosts war chest by $1bn in country’s biggest GDR sale for a decade

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    • Sunday, 27 December, 2015
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      Kim Beom-su, Kakao: Life of Brian

      English nicknames for all — just one way in which the tech billionaire flouts South Korean norms

    • Tuesday, 17 November, 2015
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      Child porn laws invoked to charge Kakao boss for failing to stop teenagers sharing lewd images

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