Kakao refutes suspicions of rigging when cheering for soccer match between China and South Korea... ``External macros were the cause, request police to investigate'' = South Korea

On the 4th, suspicions surfaced that South Korean internet giant Kakao's support page for the Asian Games men's soccer quarterfinals between South Korea and China had been manipulated on its portal site Daum.
The company explained that the incident was caused by a macro program from outside and announced that it would ask the police to investigate. According to the company's explanation, Daum Sports' "Click Support" page
It was discovered that two IP addresses from overseas used a macro program to perform a large number of clicks around 12:30 a.m. on the 2nd after the game ended. Are these two IP addresses overseas?
accounted for 99.8% (approximately 19.89 million) of the number of clicks (approximately 19.93 million), of which approximately 15.39 million (79.4%) came from the Netherlands and approximately 4.49 million (20.6%)
)was. As a result, 93.2% (approximately 29.19 million) of the number of clicks cheering (approximately 31.3 million) supported China, and support for South Korea remained at 6.8% (approximately 2.11 million).
wait. In response to this phenomenon, Park Sung-Jun, a member of the ruling party People's Power and secretary of the National Assembly Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, said at a press conference on the 3rd that there are forces manipulating public opinion.
He claimed that he may have been involved. The company acknowledges that the click support service allows unlimited participation without logging in, and that there is a risk that the number of supporters for a particular team may become excessive.
I met. The company requested the police to investigate the incident as a serious act of obstruction of business, which goes against the purpose of the service, and decided to discontinue the service.
In addition to "Click Support," there are also services that can be used without logging in within the portal.
Su confirmed that there were only "likes" and comments on the "tistory" post. The company said, ``We will continue to review our monitoring system to prevent fraudulent activity across our services.
"We will continue to improve," he promised. The company also apologized, saying, ``We deeply apologize for the inconvenience this issue has caused our users.''