{"id":191122,"date":"2026-02-27T02:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T07:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/kakao-entertainment-taps-ex-kakao-bank-ai-chief-as-co-ceo\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T04:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T09:15:12","slug":"kakao-entertainment-taps-ex-kakao-bank-ai-chief-as-co-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/27\/kakao-entertainment-taps-ex-kakao-bank-ai-chief-as-co-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Kakao Entertainment taps ex-Kakao Bank AI chief as co-CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10684168\">Kakao Entertainment taps ex-Kakao Bank AI chief as co-CEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10684168\">https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10684168<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-27 02:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.koreaherald.com\">www.koreaherald.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kakao Entertainment has selected Ko Jung-hee, former head of AI at Kakao Bank, as its new co-CEO alongside Joseph Chang.<\/li>\n<li>Ko is expected to be formally appointed in late March following shareholder and board approval.<\/li>\n<li>Current co-CEO Kweon Ki-su plans to step down for personal reasons.<\/li>\n<li>The leadership change emphasizes sharpening the company&#8217;s global strategy focusing on intellectual property across music, story, and media, while enhancing platform competitiveness.<\/li>\n<li>Ko, who joined the Kakao group in 2002, has experience in service operations, AI innovation, and management of community platforms like Daum Cafe and Japan operations.<\/li>\n<li>The company believes Ko\u2019s background in AI and financial services will positively impact Kakao Entertainment\u2019s platform and service improvements.<\/li>\n<li>In the new structure, Ko will focus on refining platform and service strategies with a focus on innovation and competitiveness.<\/li>\n<li>Joseph Chang will continue to expand global intellectual properties and overseas operations, including large-scale international projects and K-pop distribution. <\/li>\n<li>In a joint statement, both Chang and Ko emphasized the intent to deepen synergies across the company&#8217;s intellectual property value chain and grow its global entertainment industry presence.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kakao Entertainment taps ex-Kakao Bank AI chief as co-CEO https:\/\/www.koreaherald.com\/article\/10684168 Publish Date: 2026-02-27 02:01:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191123,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wimg.heraldcorp.com\/news\/cms\/2026\/02\/27\/news-p.v1.20260227.dad195c33d1e440c8429756dd0a3f270_T1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191124,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191122\/revisions\/191124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}