• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.245-252
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• 2017

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of mergers and acquisitions of domestic IT companies on strategic aspects of internal capacity enhancement. Empirical analysis applied to this study analyzed the business performance in the market through the merger of Daum Communications and Kakao Group. After Daum pursued the merger with Kakao, it showed that the platform business of kakao is expanding to the domain of the existing portal site. The merger was completed, and the total value of the stocks went up to the highest level, but soon its value declined. The merger shows that the growth potential of the enterprise is temporarily declining, which seems to be the internal cost of the merger. Even in the case of profitability, the merger did not show positive results. In the case of stability, the expectation due to the merger was reflected and slightly increased. The following two companies were interested in the kakao when they viewed the merger through a chronological analysis. However, after the merger, the interest of the next kakao was similar. This is seen as a result of the expansion of kakao's diverse platform business rather than the following search sites. From the results of this study, it is suggested that domestic IT companies should approach by analyzing the strategic factors that generate synergy when pursuing M & A to strengthen their resources or capabilities.

• Journal of Korea Entertainment Industry Association
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• v.15 no.5
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• pp.33-43
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• 2021

Kakao M and Kakao page have been merged to form contents corporation, Kakao entertainment. Kakao M has 15 contents management agencies and 4 music labels, in addition to movie and drama productions. Kakao Page currently holds IP rights for about 8,500 content stories. This study explores the relationship between M&A for absorptive capacity and content value chain by considering the factors that determine boundary spanning behaviors. Using the Kakao entertainment in-depth case study as the practical lens, research results of this study are suggested. Kakao's effective M&A activities are critical key factor for absorptive capacity in the entertainment industry and has a strong network with advantage assets. Also, as the contents business becomes even more competitive, Kakao need to venture beyond entertainment boundaries to seize creative opportunities. Kakao entertainment with absorptive capacity and boundary spanning behaviors through M&A and contents value chain best qualified for entertainment dominant strategy.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.143-144
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• 2014

"카카오톡"이 세계시장으로 확대하기를 위해서 중미일의 대표적인 모바일 SNS(Facebook, Wechat, Linkedln)와 대비를 통하여 GUI디자인을 중심으로 분석이 이루어져야 할 필요성이 있다. 연구결과를 통하여 본 카카오톡 GUI디자인의 특징과 문제점은 다음과 같다. 첫째, 굵은 선으로 아이콘 구성하는 방법이 전체 스타일에 영합하지만 화면이 복잡해 보이는 측면이 있다. 둘째, 서브메뉴에서 아이콘과 앱링크, 광고이미지 등 다양한 요소를 한꺼번에 놓으면 혼란한 측면이 있다.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.10
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• pp.147-154
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• 2012

I made an analysis on the case of Kakao Talk, which is Korean top mobile instant messaging service, to find the growth potential of Korean Social Network Service in the global market. First, I found that unlike the PC messenger services, Kakao Talk is not only unlimited in mobile IM service provider but also has evolving into a social network service firm. Second, attempts with a variety of social services such as photo-based Kakao Story and Marketing Platform for Mobile Game, Kakao Talk successfully landed as a SNS company. Third, with 'Plus Friends' Service, soon-to-be launched Avatar and App Market Service, Kakao Talk is evolving into social media and social platforms. The big success of Kakao Talk in Korean market is expanding and reproducing into Japanese and Southeast Asian markets through the 'Line' serviced by NHN. Line is applying the proven success stories of Kakao Talk to the Japanese and Southeast Asian markets. It means that Kakao and Line, both are mobile IM services, have raised the possibility of success in the global SNS market although online web-based SNS Cyworld has failed in the global market.

• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.8 no.4
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• pp.49-56
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• 2013

KakaoTalk, a Korean mobile instant messenger service launched by KAKAO Inc., has grown remarkably popular in a short period of time, with its number of subscribers exceeding 100 million as of July 2013. Today, KakaoTalk is an everyday communication tool among most Korean mobile users. Although KAKAO has been the subject of many business and consumer studies, the KakaoTalk platform strategy has not been studied thoroughly. In this study, we analyze its platform strategy through the lens of several widely utilized frameworks such as Platform Leadership (Gawer & Cusumano 2002, 2008), Winner-take-all dynamics (Eisenmann et al. 2006), and Open Service Innovation (Chesbrough 2011). Our results show that Eisenmann et al (2006)'s "Winner-Take-All" platform best explains how KakaoTalk dominated its rivals, Mypeople by Daum Communications and Line by Naver Corporation. In surpassing its rivals, KAKAO delivered a solution to the 'essential problem' that mobile social communication should be upgraded from mobile companies' paid "Short Message Service" (SMS). By doing so, KakaoTalk fulfilled the first requirement of Gawer & Cusumano (2008)'s "Coring" strategy, which explains how a new platform is created. KakaoTalk also satisfied the second requirement of "Coring" by providing economic incentives for KakaoTalk members to interact through its Games and Items store. Actively accepting its customers' ideas and upgrading its services, KAKAO reinforced its platform leadership to its customers and put Chesbrough (2011)'s "Outside In - Open Service" innovation strategy into practice.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2015.05a
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• pp.267-268
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• 2015

카카오에 함유되어 있는 향기성분을 열탈착 가스크로마토 질량분석기(TD GC/MS)를 이용하여 실시하였다. 그 결과 hydrocarbone류 10종, alcohol류 3종, aldehyde류 7종, ketone류 3종 및 carboxylic acid류 4종 등 총 27종의 향기성분이 동정되었다. 그 중에서 carboxylic acid류의 향기성분이 55.88%로 가장 많이 함유되어 있었다. 그 다음으로 알데히드류가 13.80%, 케톤 화합물이 11.90% 그리고 모노테르펜 화합물이 11.7% 함유되어 있음을 확인하였다.

• Asia-pacific Journal of Multimedia Services Convergent with Art, Humanities, and Sociology
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• v.7 no.12
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• pp.819-829
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• 2017

In this paper, we describe the current state of speech recognition technology and identify the basic speech recognition technology and algorithms first, and then explain the code flow of API necessary for speech recognition technology. We use the application programming interface (API) of Google, Naver, and Daum KaKao, which have the most famous search engine among the speech recognition APIs, to create a voice recognition app in the Android studio tool. Then, we perform a speech recognition experiment on people's standard words and dialects according to gender, age, and region, and then organize the recognition rates into a table. Experiments were conducted on the Gyeongsang-do, Chungcheong-do, and Jeolla-do provinces where the degree of tongues was severe. And Comparative experiments were also conducted on standardized dialects. Based on the resultant sentences, the accuracy of the sentence is checked based on spacing of words, final consonant, postposition, and words and the number of each error is represented by a number. As a result, we aim to introduce the advantages of each API according to the speech recognition rate, and to establish a basic framework for the most efficient use.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.18 no.4
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• pp.141-154
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• 2016

Mobile application is growing explosively with the advent of a new technology: smartphones. Mobile application is a new marketing channel and performs as a start-up platform. This study examines the effect of mobile application on the off-line market. Despite the continuous declining demand for taxi service, paradoxically, the supply of taxi service has increased. The taxi industry can be categorized into general taxi and call taxi. General taxi is accidental and inefficient because it has to search for its own passenger. As call taxi takes the request of a passenger, it is more efficient than general taxi. However, the current defective passenger-taxi driver matching system and insufficient taxi driver management hinder the development of the call taxi market. Differences in differences (DID) is an econometrical methodology that examines whether or not an event has meaningful influence. This research uses DID to investigate the effect of the Kakao taxi application on the call taxi industry. Furthermore, it examines the effect of major companies' reckless diversification, which is considered unethical behavior. The passengers of call taxi data from August 2014 to July 2015 and those of designated driving service data of the same period were collected as the control group.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.8
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• pp.329-338
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• 2022

As the non-face-to-face economic situation developed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, untact stock groups appeared in the stock market. This study proposed the Korea COVID-19 fear index following the spread of infectious diseases in the COVID-19 pandemic situation and analyzed the influence on the untact stock and contact stock returns. The results of the empirical analysis are as follows. First, as a result of the Granger causality analysis using the Korea COVID-19 fear index, significant causality was found in the return of contact stocks such as Korean Air, Hana Tour, CJ CGV, and Paradise. Second, as a result of stock price prediction based on the LSTM model, Kakao, Korean Air, and Naver's prediction performance was high. Third, the investment performances of the Alexander filter entry rule using the predicted stock price were high in Naver futures and Kakao futures. This study can find a difference from previous studies in that it analyzed the influence of the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic on untact and contact stocks in the COVID-19 situation where the non-face-to-face economy is in full swing.

• 한국벤처창업학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.53-53
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• 2017

페이 춘추전국시대에 간편결제 서비스는 네이버페이, 카카오페이, 삼성페이, L페이, T페이, 시럽 페이, 스마일 페이, 케이페이, 페이나우, 페이코, SSG페이, H-Wallet, 구글페이, 애플페이, 알리페이, 안드로이드페이 등 '페이'관련된 서비스들은 각 회사마다 계속 등장하고 있는 추세이다. 온라인 또는 모바일 쇼핑의 끝에서 복잡한 인증절차와 관련 프로그램 설치로 결제를 포기를 하거나 다른 결제 회사를 선택해서 또 다시 카드번호, 카드 비밀번호, 인증절차를 거치는 번거로움과 시간을 소비하는 일이 많았다. 예전 방식에 비해서 눈 깜짝할 사이 결제를 진행하는 간편결제 서비스는 말 그대로 '빠르고 편리하다'는 장점을 지녔으며, '온라인에 처음 한번만 카드정보를 등록하면 그 다음부터는 비밀번호만 입력하면 결제가 완료된다. 요즘 각 간편결제 서비스 회사들은 가격 할인, 적립금, 포인트 지급 등으로 소비자의 결제 형태를 바꾸고 있다. 쇼핑몰 결제 싯점이라는 중요한 포인트에서 이 연구의 목적은 간편결제 서비스에 대한 지각된 용이성과 유용성이 고객만족과 쇼핑몰 충성도로 인터넷 쇼핑몰 재구매의도에 미치는 영향에 관한 실증적 연구를 하고자 한다.