MOSCOW, August 7 (RIA Novosti) - The South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning said China blocked the Line and KakaoTalk messenger applications as well as the other three less wide-spread messengers - Didi, TalkBox and Vower - due to terrorism concerns, Reuters reported on Thursday.
According to the Ministry, the Chinese authorities have confirmed that they have blocked "some foreign messaging applications through which terrorism-related information" circulated.
This statement came as a first official explanation of the service disruptions both Line and KakaoTalk were experiencing in China since early July.
The South Korean Ministry of Science, ICT and Future said it will continue negotiations with China "to ensure that service disruptions for KakaoTalk and Line as well as inconvenience for the users in China are resolved as early as possible."
Line is a Japanese proprietary application for instant messaging on smartphones and computers. It is currently used by 300 million people worldwide. South Korean KakaoTalk application currently has 140 million users.
