Hi everyone!

We at Kakao Games and Bluehole are very excited and looking forward to presenting Elyon to all of you! Over the past few years, the developers have been working hard on reshaping Elyon.

The Closed Beta Test has already been announced earlier this week, so you’ll see the big changes very soon. We know expectations of Elyon are pretty high and that many of you have a lot of questions. Because of that, we decided to run an AMA session for you, together with the developers and r/MMORPG.

Details below.

Proof: https://kg.games/amammorpg

Elyon information

Trailer: http://kg.games/ely1tra

Website: https://kg.games/relyonreg

Official AMA announcement: http://kg.games/amaelyontw

Closed Beta Test sign up: https://kg.games/rcbtap

Come join us in Discord: http://kg.games/elydiscinv

Who is in this AMA?

Here today with us are the Executive Producer Hyungjun Kim from BlueHole, our Project Manager Jim and Community Managers Jeroen and Yukimura from Kakao Games. We are happy to answer all questions you have about our game over the next 2 hours, so let’s have a fun chat and enjoy our time together!

Kind Regards,

The Elyon Team

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Update:

We had a really great time hanging out with you all. Thanks so much for taking part in our AMA. Don’t forget that sign-ups for our Closed Beta Test in May are open at the moment.

We definitely look forward to seeing you enjoy yourself in Harth.

ps: we will go over the questions that we didn’t have time to answer and follow up later.Thank you again for your amazing participation!

Update 2:

Follow-up: http://kg.games/elyonama2

Hi! I was wondering what form of payment app I should download before moving to Korea. Which app is better (like more common)? Additionally, can I link my US cards onto these apps and will they work? I don’t have a Korean bank account yet (still using Bank of America).

I was sent this earlier this month. I'm completely lost. I went to the site to try to do it but it seems it's about pension/real estate funds or something. It doesnt' seem to be about normal job related tax things.

What does 종합소득세 신고 mean? Translate tells me just "comprehensive tax" but again hometax made it seem like it's business tax related. I dont' make any money via business so...idk what's going on.

And I tried to call 126 but it's just a recording.

> 국세청에서 발송한 전자문서가 도착했습니다. >
> 안녕하십니까. 국세청에서 안내드립니다. > > 매년 5월은 종합소득세를 신고·납부하는 달입니다. > > ■ 신고기간 : 2021.5.1.~5.31. > > ■ 납부기간 : 아래 “안내문 열람하기”에서 확인 > > ■ 신고방법 > * 홈택스 전자신고(www.hometax.go.kr) > (방법1) 홈택스 → 로그인 → 안내문 선택[종합소득세 신고 - 간편장부 대상(기준경비율 적용)] → 신고서 작성하기 > (방법2) 홈택스 → 로그인 → 신고/납부 → 세금신고 → 종합소득세 → 신고서 선택, 정기신고 작성 > * 서면신고 : 주소지 관할 세무서에 우편 또는 팩스 접수(코로나19 감염 예방을 위해 세무서 신고창구는 운영하지 않습니다.) > > ■ 신고문의 : ☎ 126

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Hi, I've been studying Korean for almost half a year now and I only now discovered that there are open chats on Kakaotalk which some ppl use for learning Korean together. I searched for some (but was quite confused tbh) and wondered how useful these kind of groups are.

I've been using Tandem for a really long time now (not only for korean) but I have trouble writing with people for a long time (a lot just suddenly stop answering) which is why I thought these groups might help. Is here anyone who has some experience on how useful they are for using korean on a daily basis (besides private lessons 2x a week) ? Is it better to stick to native koreans to prevent picking up wrong terms/sentences, etc? And how can there be a chat structure when there are several hundred people in a chat room?

Thansk so much for insight, opinions or other kinds of help. Have a good one!

Original article:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/hundreds-k-pop-releases-removed-spotify-worldwide-2890528

> Spotify launched in South Korea on February 1, 2021, but did so without music from artists with licensing deals under Kakao M, including IU, Zico and more.

> Now, releases distributed by the Korean label have been removed from Spotify around the world. Kakao M distributes a large share of Korean popular music, with 37.5 percent of the songs featured on the 2020 Top 400 Yearly Song Chart from Gaon Music Chart under the company.

Also on BBC.

Kakao M claiming it was Spotify removing it:

https://www.soompi.com/article/1456887wpp/kakao-m-releases-statement-explaining-that-spotify-was-the-one-to-end-their-licensing-agreement

> [...] later that same morning, Kakao M countered with its own statement, in which it claimed that Spotify had been the one who chose not to renew their agreement, even after a request on Kakao M’s part.

While this is clearly over compensation, Spotify needs to rectify this asap. From their own news release, K-pop is a huge part of why people use their service:

> Between January 2014 and January 2020, K-pop's share of listening on Spotify increased by more than 1,800%.

> Since Spotify released its first K-Pop flagship playlist, K-Pop Daebak, in 2014 (and then a massive hub dedicated to the genre in 2015), there have been more than 41 billion K-Pop streams on Spotify. From rising artists to international collaborations, there’s something for both new and old K-Pop lovers on the platform.

> Top-streamed K-Pop artists on Spotify include BTS, BLACKPINK, EXO, TWICE, and Red Velvet. In 2019, BTS was the first group from Asia to surpass 5 billion streams on Spotify. And, as of February 2020, the boy band reached a new milestone: more than 8 billion streams (8 billion streams!) on the platform.

If a resolution can't be reached I think Spotify will be in trouble long-term as whatever service picks it up will siphon a significant chunk of users.

Hello,

Since I've seen a few posts like this and seem to get help this is my last resort.

I have bought 200 euros worth of pearls before kakao discontinued selling and exchanged them to pearls for future sales etc.Day of transfer i log in my character is in Velia instead of Sycraia and the pearls have been defaulted back pre-purchased amount.

Emailed support the same day of transfer after hours of "Now processing"

Waited patiently for about 3 weeks for reply and got a reply that has no fundamental value as they didn't understand that its already transferred to pearls and kakao has nothing to do with it since you own the database now and ownership of the player base.

This is the reply : https://prnt.sc/10z9ciz

Number of tickets and date i opened and 1 reply since February 26th. https://prnt.sc/10z9cxc

Bought extra 400 euros in acoin after transfer waiting for my 200 euro to initially be recovered... https://prnt.sc/10z9dpg

Kakao transactions numbers https://prnt.sc/10z9g24

DM'D u/GM_Wisdom https://prnt.sc/10zadjy

I truly understand that it takes time specially after transfer and during a pandemic to be a little more patient, but i hope you understand too that this is people's money and more than 30 days for kind of a important matter is disappointing.

Right now you can't submit certain webtoons to Naver/Line Webtoon if it breaks any of the rules including nudity where as Tapas right now allows nudity to be shown in their webtoons and even offers uncensored Korean webtoons that are not available in Korea. Korea has strict censorship laws when it comes to violence and nudity including the same genitalia censorship laws as Japan. The reason Naver/Line Webtoon does this is because they are owned by Naver which is a Korean company and hence why they follow Korean law. Since Tapas is based in the U.S., they don't follow the same censorship rules but now that they are owned by Kakao which is Korean, I'm worried that the same censorship will be applied to their webtoons and soon there won't be much freedom in terms of what you can draw. Is anyone else worried about this?

After seeing the list of artists who had songs removed from the Kakao M / Spotify licensing dispute, I was curious which songs were removed, so I started compiling a list. The list is currently sorted by Spotify "Popularity".

View the full list here on Google Sheets.

Top 10:

1. Celebrity - IU
2. Maria - Hwa Sa
3. eight(Prod.&Feat. SUGA of BTS) - IU
4. I'm Not Cool - Hyuna (*)
5. MAGO - GFRIEND
6. HIP - MAMAMOO
7. NUNU NANA - Jessi (*)
8. Dingga - MAMAMOO
9. Any Song - ZICO
10. AYA - MAMAOO

(*) A separate copy of these songs have been re-uploaded to Spotify

Methodology: retrieve raw data dump of Spotify playlists, then search Spotify via API

Credits: Exportify by WatsonBox. r/kpop Spotify release playlists and public Spotify playlists of fans around the world. Thank you!!

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Edit: updated post to reflect spreadsheet automation. Yes, this spreadsheet is incomplete, but I hope to write the scripts to complete it in the next couple days. I see your messages about missing albums/songs/artists. They'll be included soon!

EDIT 2: since the songs all came back on March 12, we catalogued all the songs that were removed during these two weeks. The total is 18000+ songs over 700+ artists. The spreadsheet has been updated accordingly.

People should pay attention to this because Kakao is the home of some of the subreddit's most popular series. Pretty much all series from Tapas comes from them, like I'll Be the Matriarch in This Life and Death is the only Ending for the Villianess.

Some must have noticed that for the last year Tapas has been adding a lot of korean properties like the ones above and the articles has some interesting info on their success:

>Just 80 Kakao IPs are responsible for half of Tapas' sales... Based on such growth data, we determined that Kakao Entertainment's growth formula in Korea or Japan was also possible in America and other English-speaking regions.
>
>...
>
>Tapas' strength in "webtoons" led to five-fold jump in sales in 2020,

You can expect this to mean that they'll only add more Korean series to their catalogue. Kakao also has big plans for Radish fiction app:

>We will not only gain greater possibilities in collaboration with Kakao Entertainment, which has a value chain in the whole entertainment business but showcase a more diverse spectrum of stories in the North American story market by securing South Korea's representative super IPs.

I went and checked the Radish app and they added some korean web novels like The Villainess is a Marionette, Lady Evony, A Returner's Magic Should be Special, and Last on Earth.

It's a weird choice to have posted them on Radish instead of Tapas because all the other stories are targeted at adult women and have attractive models on their covers. It's odd to see a random anime-style cover right in the middle but it looks like they want Radish to become a competitor to Naver(Owners of Webtoon app)'s Wattpad.

I think this is ultimately a good thing for readers and I'm happy because there's more web novels being translated. And this competition between Naver and Kakao is a good thing because recently webtoon has added a new translation almost every week and I can't help but think they started doing this because of Kakao success on Tapas and International hits like Solo-Leveling. My hope is that they'll also translate their popular korean series li

im just wondering what their track record is with global gachas (compared to original servers of course)

Original news: https://n.news.naver.com/article/008/0004550202

Translation: https://twitter.com/tmikpop/status/1366233681820585987

Soompi: https://www.soompi.com/article/1456887wpp/kakao-m-releases-statement-explaining-that-spotify-was-the-one-to-end-their-licensing-agreement