Kakao Mobility Integrates Parking and EV Charging Services with Korea Electronic Finance

Kakao Mobility announced on the 2nd that it has signed a business agreement with Korea Electronic Finance for a ‘Parking and Electric Vehicle Charging Service Partnership.’

Korea Electronic Finance is a specialized company with 30 years of experience in operating unmanned systems. It is expanding its mobility business area based on the unmanned parking service ‘Nice Park’ and the electric vehicle charging infrastructure service ‘Nice Charger.’

The two companies plan to combine Kakao Mobility’s advanced platform operation know-how with Korea Electronic Finance’s control equipment infrastructure to develop various service products related to parking and electric vehicle charging services. Through this agreement, parking lots operated by Nice Park and electric vehicle charging devices from Nice Charger will be linked to the ‘Kakao T’ platform.

From the left, Jaehyun Kim, Executive Director of the Kaon Business Office at Kakao Mobility, and Huntaek Lim, Executive Director of the Parking Business Headquarters at Korea Electronic Finance
[Photo by Kakao Mobility]

Kakao Mobility will prioritize linking about 2,000 of the 3,500 parking lots operated by Nice Park to ‘Kakao T Parking’ within the second quarter, providing the parking pass service with automatic payment functionality. Since Nice Park is expanding its parking lot scale by more than 1,000 annually, the number of parking lots that can be linked to Kakao T Parking is expected to continue increasing. With this agreement, the total number of parking lots available through ‘Kakao T Parking’ nationwide will expand to approximately 4,400, the largest scale among domestic platforms.

They will also explore cooperation plans in the electric vehicle charging service sector. By linking Nice Charger’s charging devices to Kakao T and Kakao Navi, various user convenience features such as ▲easy payment ▲location search ▲real-time notifications of charging device usage history ▲status display will be provided. The expected scale of linkage is a total of 5,000 devices, with the timing yet to be determined.

Kim Jaehyun, Executive Director of the Kakao Mobility Owner Business Division, said, “Parking and electric vehicle charging are key infrastructure services for future mobility. We will continue to expand the cooperative ecosystem with major industry players like Korea Electronic Finance to enhance not only user convenience but also the efficiency of service providers.”

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