Why Korea’s teens are abandoning KakaoTalk for Instagram

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2024-09-23/business/industry/Explainer-Why-Koreas-teens-are-abandoning-KakaoTalk-for-Instagram/2138854

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4 Comments

  1. medicinal_bulgogi on

    Those two apps are vastly different in function.. kakaotalk is like WhatsApp

    Edit: google told me WhatsApp isn’t a thing in the US.. I mean that it’s just an app for texting

  2. They’re not abandoning anything. They use both. Instagram with close friends but Kakao with everyone else.

    Of course there may come a time when another messenger replaces Kakao but it will never be Instagram in the current form because nobody wants to share their IG with their bosses or teachers.

  3. Okay I skimmed and it seems the story is about how those people spend less time on KT than IG, that’s about it. It’s not like they are substituting the other one, they’re just spending more time on IG. That’s normal. No one’s spending 5 hours looking at chat and it’s easy to endless scroll on IG