The head of the South Korean Internet company Kakao resigned due to a failure in the work of its messenger

Today, Namkun Won is the co-executive director of the leading South Korean Internet company Kakao. gone resigned following a major disruption to the company’s largest messaging app in the country, Kakao Talk. The failure occurred last Saturday due to a fire in the SK C&C data center near Seoul, which led to widespread dissatisfaction among users and local businesses who also use this messenger.

Currently, the number of active users of Kakao Talk is about 50 million. More than 500 representatives of small and medium-sized businesses complained that the failure of the messenger hit their sales. This year, the South Korean brand Kakao has entered in the world’s top three fastest growing brands in the Brand Finance ranking – along with TikTok and Snapchat.

The disruption to the messenger has also drawn the attention of regulators, who want to check why such a popular application was dependent on a single data center. Kakao itself has already apologized to users and promised to take all measures to prevent this from happening in the future.

Evgeniy Khvostik