Cocoa (company)
| Cocoa Corp.
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | KR7035720002 |
| founding | 2014 |
| Seat | Seoul , South Korea |
| Website | www.kakaocorp.com |
Cocoa Corp. is a South Korean company that operates the search engine Daum, as well as a web portal with webmail , forum, shopping, news and webtoon services. The company is increasingly focusing on mobile services such as the KakaoTalk messenger .
In May 2014 the merger of Daum with KakaoTalk , the also South Korean manufacturer of a text messaging app , was announced, with KakaoTalk holding the larger share of the newly created company.
At the beginning of 2016, Kakao took over a controlling majority of 76.4% in LOEN Entertainment , which operates , among other things, the most popular music streaming service in South Korea, MelOn .
Kakao Bank , founded in 2016, went online in July 2017 and already had 2 million customers within a few weeks. It is the first exclusively online bank in South Korea.
Cocoa is traded on the Korea Exchange and is listed in the KOSPI .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Kakao Talk merges with Portal Daum. In: Handelsblatt.com , May 26, 2014
- ↑ Kang Yoon-seung: Kakao to acquire S. Korea's top music streaming provider. In: Yonhap . January 11, 2016, accessed January 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Son Ji-hyoung: Cocoa to transfer to Kospi on Monday. In: Korea Herald . July 6, 2017, accessed October 14, 2017 .