S.Korea's webtoon industry sales surpasses $1.36 bn

Japan was the largest export market for Korean webtoons, followed by North America and Chinese-speaking countries

S.Korea's webtoon industry sales surpasses />.36 bn
Ju-Hyun Lee 1
2025-01-03 15:42:19 deep@hankyung.com
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South Korea's webtoon market size surpassed 2 trillion won ($1.36 billion) for the first time. 

The South Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and its affiliate Korea Creative Content Agency released a 2024 survey on the webtoon sector.

According to the report, the total revenue for the webtoon industry in 2023 reached 2.189 trillion won, a 19.7% increase from the previous year's 1.829 trillion won.

Japan was the largest market with 40.3%, followed by North America (19.7%), Chinese-speaking countries (15.6%), Southeast Asia (12.3%), and Europe (8.2%).

The percentage of the pirated webtoons was 20.4%, down from 21.5% last year. 80% of users enjoy webtoons on their smartphones.

Women webtoon writers (58.3%) were more than men (41.7%). Around half of webtoon creators are in their 30s (61.1%). This is followed by those in their 20s (23.5%), 40s and more (15.4%). 

Webtoon writers earned an average of 42.68 million won in 2023. Only 24.7% of webtoonists earned more than 50 million won.

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