Kakao Corp., the company behind South Korea's leading mobile messenger app, KakaoTalk, revealed that its service encountered an hour-long disruption in the morning due to an internal system error. The personal computer version of KakaoTalk was affected from 8:30 a.m. to 9:24 a.m., prompting an immediate response from the company. This incident follows brief service outages experienced on Monday and last week, as well as a widespread outage in 2022 caused by a fire at a data center. In response to the latest disruption, the Ministry of Science and ICT conducted an emergency on-site inspection of Kakao with network experts to prevent similar incidents in the future. Kakao Corp., the operator of KakaoTalk, the prominent mobile messenger app in South Korea, reported that its service suffered from a disruption lasting approximately one hour in the morning due to an internal system error. The PC version of KakaoTalk was impacted from 8:30 a.m. to 9:24 a.m., prompting a swift response from the company. This comes after the messenger experienced brief service outages on Monday and last week, as well as a widespread outage in 2022 caused by a data center fire. In light of the latest disruption, the Ministry of Science and ICT conducted an emergency on-site inspection of Kakao with network experts to prevent similar incidents in the future.