Games & Commerce

Kakao union to hold picket protest at Pangyo Agit on July 21 as pay talks drag on

Kakao’s labour union will stage a picket protest on July 21 inside the company’s Pangyo Agit office as wage and collective bargaining talks remain deadlocked, industry sources said on Tuesday. The action follows a four-hour partial strike on June 10 and a “logout day” on June 29 involving multiple Kakao affiliates. Differences remain over a 6.9 percent pay-rise proposal, renegotiation terms and RSU compensation, with some affiliates also raising job security.

AI & Enterprise

DK Techin unveils KakaoWork 2.0, shifting collaboration tool into workplace AI platform

DK Techin, Kakao\'s IT solution development unit, is turning its collaboration tool KakaoWork into an AI platform. It unveiled KakaoWork 2.0 on July 14, adding a workplace AI agent called Work AI and introducing a new infrastructure structure. The update supports chat-based spelling and tone correction, summaries of unread chats and mentions, conversation search, translation, and text search in images. It also adds a knowledge search AI for internal rules and manuals.