34 Facts About Line Pay

Line Pay is a freeware app for instant communications on electronic devices such as smartphones, tablet computers and personal computers.

Line Pay was launched in Japan in June 2011 by NHN Japan, a subsidiary of Naver Corporation.

Line Pay became Japan's largest social network in 2013, with more than 300 million users.

Line Pay is the most popular messaging application in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand.

Line Pay became Japan's largest social network by the end of 2013, with more than 300 million registrants worldwide, of which more than 50 million users were within Japan.

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In October 2014, Line Pay announced that it had attracted 560 million users worldwide with 170 million active user accounts.

Line Pay was originally developed as a mobile application for Android and IOS smartphones.

In July 2016, Line Pay Corporation held IPOs on both the New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

In late December 2020, Line Pay Corporation delisted from both the New York Stock Exchange and the Tokyo Stock Exchange, in advance of its absorption-type merger agreement with Z Holdings.

Line Pay began in Spring 2011 as a communication system for NHN Japan employees.

Line Pay is an application that works on multiple platforms and has access via multiple personal computers.

Line Pay has a feature, called a Snap movie, that users can use to record a stop-motion video and add in provided background music.

In January 2015, Line Pay Taxi was released in Tokyo as a competitor to Uber.

Line Pay launched a new android app called "Popcorn buzz" in June 2015.

Line Pay includes a feature known as "official channels" which allows companies, especially news media outlets, publications and other mass media companies to offer an official channel which users can join and thereby receive regular updates, published articles or news updates from companies or news outlets.

Original default characters and stickers, known as Line Pay Friends, were created by Kang Byeongmok, known as "Mogi", in 2011.

In September 2013, Line Pay Corporation announced its games had been downloaded 200 million times worldwide.

On July 10, 2017, Line Pay Games acquired NextFloor Corporation, developers of Dragon Flight and Destiny Child.

On December 12, 2018, Line Pay Games held a media event called LPG to introduce its games for 2019.

Line Pay Taxi was launched in January 2015 in partnership with Nihon Kotsu, a local taxi service in Japan.

In January 2022 Line Pay announced the discontinuation of Line Pay Lite, taking effect on the 28th February 2022.

In July 2016, Line Pay Corporation turned on end-to-end encryption by default for all Line Pay users.

Line Pay stated in March 2021 that it had since blocked access to user data at the Chinese affiliate and that it would revise its privacy policy and make it more explicit.

Line Pay had been used by the Japanese government and local governments to notify residents about developments in dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

Line Pay relocated image and other data stored in South Korea to Japan.

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Line Pay wrote about it on his personal blog shortly after the platform's services resumed, asserting why and what he claimed happened and additionally left comments consistent with this in his social network profiles, which he subsequently removed the next day.

Line Pay suppressed content in China to conform with government censorship.

In Indonesia, Line Pay has responded to pressure from the Indonesian Communication and Information Ministry to remove emojis and stickers it believes make reference to homosexuality, for example the emoji "two men holding hands".

Line Pay issued a public statement on the issue:"Line Pay regrets the incidents of some stickers which are considered sensitive by many people.

In Thailand, Line Pay is suspected of responding to pressure from the Thai government and, after previously approving 'Red Buffalo' stickers, which had been used to refer to the Red Shirts political faction, including by the Red Shirts themselves, removed the stickers.

On November 20, 2012, Line Pay was shown in Far East Movement's music video, featuring Sidney Samson, for the song "Change Your Life".

On December 16, 2012, the Line Pay application was shown in American rap artist Big Sean's music video for the song "Guap".

Since Line Pay has become ubiquitous in Japan, its usage is depicted with relative frequency in anime, dramas, and other pop culture.

Line Pay Friends are featured characters that are shown in stickers of the application.