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Candy Crush Saga launches on hot messaging system Kakao Talk in South Korea

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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King has taken its hugely popular Candy Crush Saga to the Kakao Talk mobile messaging platform in South Korea.

The move is significant because Kakao Talk, a mobile messaging platform that has replaced text messaging in Korea, has grown dramatically in the past year, with many Kakao games taking slots in the top 10 games worldwide on Google Play. In just a year, Kakao has accumulated 30 million players and more than 400 million game downloads.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.