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Following the portal site, we decided to close the entertainment news comment box and remove related search terms from people search. It is no longer intended to prevent someone's personality being infringed by malicious comments online.

I'm Yoo Byung-soo.

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Yesterday (25th) morning The portal site was followed by a movie actor who was punished for dating violence.

When articles containing the parties' explanations came out, criticisms of excessive expression were poured out.

Since yesterday afternoon, Kakao has also removed the actor's name from the search term rankings.

The death of actor Sully shocked the society socially, but the malignant comment continued.

Yeo Min-soo and co-representative Cho Soo-yong of Kakao held an emergency press conference yesterday and announced that the comment function will be abolished in the following entertainment news this month.

We also decided not to provide related search terms that come with people.

This is to eliminate the side effects that are automatically detected by negative words being attached to individuals.

[Jeongyeon Yeon / Kakao Communication Team Director: (in news or comments) There are a lot of social side effects such as privacy infringement and defamation. This is why we have announced a plan to reorganize our services for a long time.]

Kakao says the abandonment of entertainment news, which has a lot of malignant comments on individuals compared to social and political news, has been removed first.

Kakao also announced that it will reorganize the controversial real-time search ranking service and stopped the real-time issue search service provided by 'Kakao Talk' from yesterday afternoon.