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The cocoa bean, also known as cocoa (/ ˈ k oʊ. k oʊ /) or cacao (/ k ə ˈ k aʊ /), [1] is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the fat) can be extracted.
Theobroma cacao, a tropical evergreen tree . Cocoa bean, the seed from the tree used to make chocolate; Cacao paste, ground cacao beans.The mass is melted and separated into:
Kakao Corp is the company behind KakaoTalk, which serves as its main platform and flagship application. It was founded in 2006 by Kim Bum-soo, the former CEO of NHN Corporation (the organization that emerged from the Hangame and Naver.com merger) as Kakao Inc. [9] Kakao Corp. (then known as Kakao Inc.) is based in Seoul, South Korea.
Moniliophthora perniciosa (previously Crinipellis perniciosa) [1] is a fungus that causes "witches' broom disease" (WBD) of the cocoa tree T. cacao. [2] This pathogen is currently limited to South America, Panama and the Caribbean, and is perhaps one of the best-known cocoa diseases, thought to have co-evolved with cocoa in its centre of origin (first recorded in the Brazilian Amazon in 1785).
In May 2021, Kakao VX has started a premium golf driving range business using Kakao Friends characters. [26] In 2018, Kakao has released Kakao Little Friends Phone, a smartphone dedicated to elementary school students that has enhanced protection for their children. [27] Kakao Little Friends Phone was released up to version 4 by 2021. [28]
In 2001, the report A Taste of Slavery: How Your Chocolate May be Tainted won a George Polk Award.In it were claims that traffickers promised paid work, housing, and education to children who were forced to labour and undergo severe abuse, that some children were held forcibly on farms and worked up to 100 hours per week, and that attempted escapees were beaten.
On September 1, 2020, Kakao M (now Kakao Entertainment M Company) expanded the service area of KakaoTV to OTT as it needed a platform to distribute its own dramas, entertainment programs and films. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It accumulated 13 million views one week after its launch, [ 8 ] 58 million views after a month [ 9 ] and 106 million views after three ...
On September 25, 2020, Kakaobank publicly disclosed its intention to initiate an Initial Public Offering (). [4]The bank selected KB Security and Credit Suisse to serve as lead managers for its IPO, with Citi appointed as a co-manager. [5]