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Almost every person in Taiwan has LINE, too. Something like 75% of the country has an account.

And everyone who communicates with people in Taiwan.

Sticker sets are shockingly popular with the 40+ crowd.

This is also the case in countries down south like Thailand. Everyone who is anyone is on LINE, and businesses display their LINE ID before anything else.

Line ID + FB page and now more often Instagram.

> I didn't need a phone plan when I lived there because I ended up making maybe 5 actual phone calls over the course of 3 years because LINE totally served my needs.

And of course LINE has now announced their own MVNO where you get unlimited LINE for 500 yen/mo...