As threats to bomb major corporations and public institutions continue, another post threatening to bomb Kakao was uploaded, prompting police to launch an investigation.
According to police and others on the 22nd, a post reading "A high-performance bomb has been planted at the Kakao Pangyo Agit" was uploaded to the Kakao CS Center (customer center) bulletin board at about 9:51 p.m. the previous day. The poster claimed to be "President Lee Jae-myung" and wrote that an explosive would go off on the 22nd.
Kakao said it checked the post at about 10 a.m. that day and reported it to police. Considering various circumstances, police judged it likely to be a false post and decided not to search the building, instead increasing patrols.
Bomb threats have been continuously posted on the Kakao CS Center bulletin board since on the 15th. Posts threatening bombings were also uploaded on the 17th and on the 18th. Police searched Kakao's headquarters at the time, but nothing unusual was found.
All of the bomb threat posts showed overseas Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Police believe the posts were written using a virtual private network (VPN) and are tracking the poster.