Available in Japan
The Kakao Taxi Service, a taxi call service, will begin in Japan. It will be the first overseas launch of the Kakao Taxi service. Korean Kakao taxi users will be able use the Japan Taxi Service, the biggest tax calling service in Japan without downloading an application in Japan, and Japanese tourists will be able to use the Kakao Taxi Service in Korea.
Kakao announced on May 22 that the company signed a business agreement with Japan Taxi, the largest taxi-calling service provider in Japan for the Kakao Taxi Global Services.
"Since the launch of the Kakao Taxi Service, there have been proposals for service interconnection from overseas companies," said Jung Joo-hwan, vice president of the Kakao Mobility Business Division. "As more than five million Korean tourists visited Japan last year, we pushed collaboration with Japan ahead of other nations."
"Travelers between Korea and Japan increase by more than 130% every year. We pressed ahead with a global business agreement of Kakao Taxi more than anything else in preparation for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games and the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games,” Japan Taxi president Kawanabe said. “We want to provide comfortable tax service experiences for users of both countries in concert with Kakao."
Meanwhile, Korea's leading mobile taxi calling service Kakao Taxi recently introduced voice search function for an app for passengers. Users can find it easily with voices without having to manually enter departing places and destinations. The Kakao Taxi Service already has a speech recognition engine 'Newton' of Kakao’s own development applied to Kakao Map and Kakao Navigation, so it has high accuracy of area name recognition.
Kakao Taxi launched on March 31, 2015 currently has 245,000 drivers and 14.5 million passengers. The service records up to 1.5 million calls per day and 220 million substitute driver service cases.