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Digital Contents Industry in Korea

A variety of Korean content such as music, movies, soap operas, webtoons, and etc. is all loved worldwide and leading global contents market as well.

Ranked 7th place in the global cultural content market

The Korean cultural content market ranked 7th place worldwide with a size of $79.1 billion (forecast for 2023)and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 4.26% until 2026. (*CAGR: Compound annual growth rate)

Content market size and forecast by country, 2021-2024

(Unit: billion dollars)

국가별 콘텐츠시장규모 및 전망 2021-2024 목록입니다.
Rank Nation 2021 2022 2023 2024
1 USA 9,798 10,573 11,120 11,588
2 China 4,461 4,387 5,209 5,566
3 Japan 2,082 2,175 2,238 2,297
4 UK 961 1,026 1,091 1,140
5 Germany 1,130 1,209 1,272 1,316
6 France 773 834 871 903
7 Korea 702 753 791 819
8 Canada 662 721 763 798
9 Italy 438 476 499 517
10 Ausralia 422 457 482 502

※ Source : KOCCA, 2022 Overseas content market analysis

Content Industry of Korea

In 2021, the number of employees in the content industry decreased by 4.3& from the previous year, but the number of exports and sales of the content industry increased by each 4.4% and 7.2% compared to the previous year. It shows that Korean content industry as a whole is growing.

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콘텐츠 산업 수출액 - 2020년:11,924,284 / 2021년:12,452,897 (단위 : 천 달러)(4.4% 증가)
콘텐츠 산업 매출액 - 2020년:128,287,034 / 2021년:137,507,958 (단위 :백만원)(7.2% 증가)
콘텐츠 산업 수출액 - 2020년:642,086 / 2021년:614,734 (단위 : 명)(4.3% 증가)
Content industry Type(2021)
  • Music 31.3%
  • Publishing 31.3%
  • Game 10.1%
  • Knowledge information 9.3%
  • Etc 18%
Exports and imports by Content industry Type(2021)
the table of Exports and Imports by contents industry type of Korea
Type Exports Imports
Music 775,274 14,031
Publishing 428,379 317,939
Game 8,672,865 312,331
Knowledge information 660,850 9,314

※ Source : Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism

Seoul's Digital Content Festival

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  • Metaverse Expo
  • SICAF
  • Seoul PopCon
  • Seoul Promotion Plan
  • 2023 SeoulCon
  • Event : SeoulCon stands for Seoul Contents Conference and is a Global Influencer Festival
  • Host : Seoul Business Agency(SBA)
  • Details : A large number of influencers such as famous global YouTubers and Tik Tokers are invited to promote Seoul's beauty fashion industry based on DDP, and lively deliver it to citizens around the world.
  • Schedule : Dec. 30, 2023 ~ Jan. 1, 2024 (expected)

Content Support Base in Seoul