Public interest in the ”LINE incident” explodes... Portal search volume increases 15-fold = South Korea

As the public's interest in the Naver LINE incident grows, analysis has revealed that the number of portal searches for "LINE" has increased 15-fold in four days.
This is the highest level in over 1 year and 7 months since the "Talk outage incident" occurred on October 16, 2022.
According to Naver Data Lab's search term trends, "LINE" searches on the 12th and 9th
The search volume index was 47.1, up 15.1 times from the 5th (3.12). The search volume index is calculated by adding up the number of times the relevant search term was searched on Naver for each day, week, and month, and dividing it by the number of times the search term was searched for during the search period (
The number of searches in the last two years is set at 100, and the relative change is shown.
The search volume index for "NAVER and Asset Talk" was more than double that of the previous one.
This is interpreted as a result of increased interest in LINE Messenger in the aftermath of the "LINE incident," which was prompted by the Japanese government's demand for LINE and Yahoo to improve their management, including a "reexamination of this relationship."
Meanwhile, Naver and Japan's SoftBank each own 50% of A Holdings, the major shareholder of Yahoo! Line. However, following administrative guidance from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications in March of this year,
There are discussions going on about reducing NAVER's stake.