The End of KakaoTV

Hello, this is YunokiRoom Offline.

Recently, it has come to my attention that KakaoTV, where I uploaded some of my videos between 2019 and 2023, will be shutting down by the end of June of this year.

For those who don't know, KakaoTV is a video streaming platform that was originally launched in June 2015 before merging with Daum TV Pot in early 2017, and offered a variety of different content distributed by individual content creators as well as partnerships with several businesses in the Korean sports and entertainment industries and their own original programming through a now-defunct channel called KakaoTV Originals.

Fortunately, like with Pandora TV whose video streaming business ceased operations in January 2023 to focus on their other ventures, most of the videos that I uploaded on KakaoTV are also available on my old channel on YouTube, so I made an archive playlist containing these videos.

Since then, KakaoTV is now offering the option to back up your videos since March and will be suspending the ability to create a new channel or to upload new videos on their platforms by the beginning of June before shutting down by the end of the latter month.

If you have any videos uploaded on KakaoTV since before the closure date, please follow the procedure to back up your videos from the platform that they have also mentioned on their blog. 

Once you're done backing up your videos, you're free to do whatever you want with them.

That's all I want to say in this update about the current state of KakaoTV.

Stay tuned for more updates about the YunokiRoom project.