Kakao Corp., the operator of South Korea's dominant mobile messenger app KakaoTalk, said Friday its service has experienced a brief disruption. Some users experienced problems sending or receiving messages on KakaoTalk for about six minutes from 9:24 a.m., the company said, adding that it immediately responded to the issue and normalized the service at 9:30 a.m. The company did not elaborate on the exact cause of the service failure. KakaoTalk has suffered a number of service outages this year, including a 90-minute disruption in July. KakaoTalk has some 45 million monthly active users in South Korea. Source: Yonhap News Agency
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