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South Korean internet conglomerate behind KakaoTalk messaging and services spanning commerce, payments, mobility and entertainment.
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Korea will cut the Onnuri voucher's upfront discount to 5% and pay up to 5% more at traditional markets, on issuance trimmed to 4.6 trillion won. With 65% of redemptions already at markets, much of the rebate pays for spending the program already had.
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Kakao is opening its paid membership with CJ Olive Young coupons for teenagers, only 70.8% of whom name KakaoTalk as their app for gifts. Lacking Coupang's delivery network, Kakao needs partners to trade benefits for access to KakaoTalk's audience.
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The board set the ratio on book net assets and a December 17 shareholder vote. Holders end up owning two separately priced Korean tech balance sheets instead of one.
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Seoul High Court rules Nov. 20 on whether Kakao founder Kim Beom-su manipulated SM Entertainment shares with 110 billion won of buying. Prosecutors seek 15 years against an acquittal built as much on facts as on law.
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Three consortia will run a free tier with no usage caps on state-supplied hardware, under a rule that Korean models carry at least half the load. The ministry has published neither the cost nor a target for uptake.
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Seoul is buying distribution rather than compute. The government is handing operators a donated chip grant, has set an 80 percent domestic serving floor, and hasn't published what the programme will cost - all in a country where roughly 1.8 million people pay for any AI at all.
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Seoul says restructuring is not a bargaining subject in principle, yet industrial action is lawful where working conditions are hit, so the boundary gets settled after signing. Buyers now pay for that in months.
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The Ministry of Science and ICT has picked three consortium leads and set September betas, which hands the market a delivery calendar long before it hands anyone a number worth modelling.
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