KakaoTalk Outage Again... Restored to Normal After About 1 Hour 30 Minutes

Emergency Maintenance Due to Login Issues

On the 18th, the messenger KakaoTalk, which experienced login errors around 11 a.m., was restored to normal after about an hour and 30 minutes.

According to Kakao, from around 10:54 a.m. that day, network errors caused issues with the PC version of KakaoTalk and Daum login, among others. After emergency inspections and recovery work, normal service began to resume around 11:36 a.m. and was fully restored by 12:20 p.m.

The inconvenience to users was compounded by the 'blackout' of some KakaoTalk services amid heavy rain concentrated in the metropolitan area.

Earlier, after a series of disruptions in KakaoTalk services in May, the Ministry of Science and ICT conducted an emergency on-site inspection and demanded that Kakao submit a correction plan within three months.

On May 13, a six-minute outage in KakaoTalk service caused about 80% of users to experience delays and failures in sending KakaoTalk messages. Similar issues with message sending and receiving delays occurred again on May 20?21.