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Kakao Music is the popular music streaming service app launched by the Kakao company, the company that launched the Korean number one free mobile messaging app called “Kakao Talk”.

These days, Kakao Music is gaining its popularity since the service allows its users to purchase and share the music from famous artists that they are listening and even can create their own music room to share the music with their friends and followers through Kakao Talk, a very well-known Korean free messaging app that is used by majority of people in South Korea.

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  The official main logo of Kakao Company
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  The Korean mobile messaging application with free text and free call features
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  A logo of Kakao Music which is a Korean music streaming service launched by Kakao
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  The increasing stock value of the company

Contents

• About the Company & App
• Function
• Popularity
• Future Perspective
• References

About the Company & Application

Kakao

Kakao Corp. primarily operates mobile platforms in South Korea. The company offers mobile messaging, gaming, music, e-mail, search, news, transportation, venture capital investment, road view map, sales and operational support, and various other services through its mobile applications.

The company was formerly known as Daum Kakao Corp. and changed its name to Kakao Corp. in October 2015. Kakao Corp. was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Jeju, South Korea.

Kakao Music

The popular music streaming service app launched by the Kakao company, the company that launched the Korean number one free mobile messaging app called “Kakao Talk”.

These days, Kakao Music is gaining its popularity since the service allows its users to purchase and share the music from famous artists that they are listening and even can create their own music room to share the music with their friends and followers through Kakao Talk, a very well-known Korean free messaging app that is used by majority of people in South Korea.

Function & Service

The app synchronizes the user’s contact list on their smartphones with the contact list on the app to find friends who are on the service.

With the Kakao Talk messenger service, Kakao Music allows its users to export their messages and share their music of the day with one another.

The Usage of App

• Share music with friends
• Add music to Kakao profile
• Send special music gifts
• Creating own music room
• Abundant information on new music

How to Use the App

1. Go to Google Play
2. Install "Kakao Music" app
3. After the download,
4. Make the personal music room
5. Add pictures & Start decorating
6. Choose favorite musician from the lists
7. If the free musics are not enough, you can also purchase the list of the songs that you like
8. Lastly, share the music room with friends and listen to each other's music

Future Perspective of the Company & App

Kakao Talk began as a simple messaging application which gained immediate popularity in Korea with a number of added services that aim to build out a full ‘social service’ for its users.

For its pioneering efforts in this respect Kakao Talk is seen as one of the many new global social platforms that are predicted to have a major impact on smartphone usage in the future.

The service and social platform that the company provide will be listing its stock publicly.

The company and the app service have been successfully listed its stock in August 2013, and demonstrates further growth in the domestic tech industry, that has been attracting much attention in the international press attention even in nowadays which is very bright and positive.

References

Mu-Hyun, Cho, (18 May 2018). “​Kakao to Merge with Music Subsidiary for Content Push.” ZDNet, Na,

www.zdnet.com/article/kakao-to-merge-with-music-subsidiary-for-content-push.

Do, Anh-Minh. (27 Sept. 2013), “Kakao Launches Spotify-esque KakaoMusic.” Tech in Asia - Connecting Asia's Startup Ecosystem, Anh-Minh Do,

www.techinasia.com/kakao-launches-spotifyesque-kakaomusic.

Han, Kyung. (2 Jan. 2017) “Kakao Music: 1.2M Downloads in 4 Days.” BE SUCCESS, Korea Han Kyung,

besuccess.com/2013/10/big-win-for-new-kakao-service-kakao-music-1-2m-downloads-in-4-days-since-release.

Khandelwal, A. (13 Mar. 2018 )“South Korea's Kakao Gets Deeper Into Cryptocurrency Space.” Coin Stocks | Cryptocurrency Investments & News. The Future of Money.™, A. Khandelwal, coinstocks.com/south-koreas-kakao-gets-deeper-cryptocurrency-space.