{"id":1030264,"date":"2026-08-21T08:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030264"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:41:58","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:11:58","slug":"kakao-to-spin-off-chat-app-based-platform-business-into-kakaoai-relist-in-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/21\/kakao-to-spin-off-chat-app-based-platform-business-into-kakaoai-relist-in-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakao to spin off chat app-based platform business into KakaoAI, relist in 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s dominant chat app \u200boperator Kakao Corp said \u200bon Friday it plans to \u200bspin off its chat app-based platform business into a new company, tentatively named KakaoAI, while retaining investment \u200coperations in \u2060a \u2060firm renamed KakaoX. <\/p>\n<p>With this move, the company is \u200bseeking to address a conglomerate discount and strengthen business \u200bspecialisation, Kakao said in a regulatory filing. <\/p>\n<p>The company expects the new entity to relist \u200bon the Korea Exchange on \u2060January 27, \u200c2027, following a planned \u200bJanuary 1 \u200bsplit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s dominant chat app \u200boperator Kakao Corp said \u200bon Friday it plans to \u200bspin off its chat app-based platform business into a new company, tentatively named KakaoAI, while retaining investment \u200coperations in \u2060a \u2060firm renamed KakaoX. With this move, the company is \u200bseeking to address a conglomerate discount and strengthen business \u200bspecialisation, Kakao said in a regulatory filing. The company expects the new entity to relist \u200bon the Korea Exchange on \u2060January 27, \u200c2027, following a planned \u200bJanuary 1 \u200bsplit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1030264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1030264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030285,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030264\/revisions\/1030285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}