South Korea's ICT ministry said Sunday it will take a wait-and-see approach over recent interruptions to South Korean mobile messenger services in China and will continue efforts to find the cause.
The move comes as the top two mobile messenger applications, LINE and KakaoTalk serviced by Naver Corp. and Kakao Corp, have been having issues in providing services in China since July 1, with some speculating that the Chinese authority has intentionally banned the services, just as it blocked Facebook and Twitter in the country.