Nate Communications said on Tuesday it has carried out a major overhaul of its messenger NateOn to maximise user convenience and business efficiency for March.

The update is a follow-up to the social login introduced in January and focuses on turning the service's openness into practical benefits for users.

The most notable change is the introduction of the NateOn gifting service to add energy to everyday relationships. Previously, users had to use private messaging apps and expose personal contact details to express gratitude to colleagues. Now they can send gifts instantly within NateOn while keeping conversations flowing. The company said it expects the broad range of products on offer to enable situation-specific gifts for everyday events, business partners and team members, helping ease workplace rigidity.

The way users connect with each other has also become more intuitive. The newly introduced one-touch contact sync lets users add friends from acquaintances saved in a smartphone address book with a single touch. By removing the need to ask for and search an ID, it creates an environment where users who signed up through social login can start communicating immediately.

NateOn will also upgrade the PC version of its teamroom feature, one of its signature work tools, to help office workers collaborate in a more comfortable environment.

It doubled the teamroom message limit to 4,000 characters from 2,000. The change addresses inconvenience from having to split and send long meeting minutes and reports multiple times, helping users avoid breaking the flow of work context. A full-view function was also added to improve readability so users can grasp large amounts of data at a glance.

Son Hyung-sun (손형선), head of NateOn, said, "If the introduction of social login was the signal flare that opened NateOn's doors wide, this update is a result designed in detail so users can stay inside without any inconvenience." He said, "We will continue to reflect user feedback immediately to strengthen NateOn's differentiated multi-messenger experience."