Who owns Kakao T?
Kakao T is owned by Kakao (South Korea, KRX: 035720).[1]
Kakao owns 57.2% of Kakao T rather than all of it.
This ownership is reported in official statements but has not yet been matched to a regulatory filing.
Evidence: Kakao Company Presentation, February 2026, Kakao Corp, 1 February 2026. Last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Kakao Corp. (57.2% stake) reported
- Owner HQ
- 🇰🇷 South Korea, Jeju
- Origin
- 🇰🇷 South Korea
- Founded
- 2017
- Category
- Internet & digital › Online commerce › Ride-hailing
- Parent ticker
- KRX: 035720
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Kakao T
Kakao T is South Korea's leading mobility platform, run by Kakao Mobility, which Kakao established in 2017 and owns 57.2 per cent of. It began as taxi hailing and now also covers designated drivers, bike and scooter hire, parking, navigation, intercity buses, trains, flights, rental cars and parcel delivery, bundling what would elsewhere be a dozen separate apps into one.
Ownership timeline of Kakao T
Where Kakao T sits in Kakao
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Kakao
Kakao controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in internet & digital.
Also in internet & digital
Founded in the 2010s
- Kakao Friends (2012)
Other brands in ride-hailing, and who owns them
The 16 brands in ride-hailing on Brandtree belong to 11 owners. The largest is Lyft, with 3.
About the owner: Kakao
Kakao is a publicly listed company headquartered in Jeju, South Korea. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as KRX: 035720.
Kakao is the South Korean internet group built around KakaoTalk, a messaging app with 49 million monthly users in a country of 52 million, and it monetises that position through advertising, gifting and commerce inside the app. Around it sit partly owned subsidiaries covering mobility, payments, banking, music streaming, webtoons and games, most of which Kakao holds well short of outright. Consolidated revenue reached a record 8.1 trillion won in 2025. Its web portal Daum, long the group's second pillar, was separated out as AXZ and left the group; it is absent from Kakao's February 2026 ownership chart.
🇰🇷 Kakao T and other South Korean brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 185 brands that began in South Korea. 7 of them (4%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Kakao T is not one of them.
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Kakao T?
The parent company of Kakao T is Kakao, a publicly listed company headquartered in South Korea.
Is Kakao T South Korean?
Yes. Kakao T originated in South Korea in 2017 and its owner, Kakao, is also headquartered in South Korea.
Is Kakao T still owned by Kakao?
Yes. As of 28 September 2026, Kakao T is still owned by Kakao (57.2% stake). The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Kakao Company Presentation, February 2026 — Kakao Corp., Official document, published 1 February 2026; retrieved 28 September 2026.
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