With this, total investments from TPG consortium, Carlyle and Google in Kakao Mobility has reached 920 billion won ($825.96 million), Kakao said in a statement.

Kakao Mobility's app, Kakao T, offers South Korea's most popular taxi-hailing service with 28 million registered users.

($1 = 1,113.8600 won)

(Reporting by Joyce Lee, editing by Louise Heavens)