Most of the functions of Kakao Talk, the aforementioned messaging application, and other of the company's most popular programs already work almost normally, a company spokesman told the Yonhap agency Monday.
A fire that started Saturday at one of Kakao's two large server nodes in the commuter town of
Applications such as Kakao Talk, Kakao Maps, Kakao T or Kakao Pay are used daily by millions of South Koreans to send messages, content or calls, use GPS to reach a destination, order taxis or pay for goods and services.
The level of disruption - only Kakao Talk is used by almost 85 percent of people - and, according to the most critical, the monopoly Kakao has in
The fire, in addition to calling into question the company's ability to respond, called into question its enormous power. Kakao also owns large online music, comics and video game distributors in the country and
At noon on Monday (
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