Com2uS stated that Summoners War was the first Korean game whose earnings amounted to ₩1 trillion (that’s $890 million). By the summer, the company expects that the total earnings of the game for all time will reach $ 1 billion.

South Korean publisher Netmarble has conducted an initial public offering (IPO). The company’s market capitalization was $12.2 billion.

South Korean presidential candidate Sim Sang-jung has released an election video in the style of the Overwatch game.

HP and MP carbonated drinks have appeared on the shelves of South Korean stores. The product names refer to health and mana recovery potions in a variety of games.

Mobile device users in South Korea mostly play on them for 46 minutes a day.

The largest South Korean mobile gaming company will enter the stock market. Netmarble expects to get up to 2.7 trillion won ($2.4 billion) as part of the initial public offering.

China has banned all new mobile games from developers from South Korea due to political and military differences between the governments of Asian countries.

Korea Creative Content Agency (KOCCA) reported that the turnover of the South Korean gaming market in 2015 reached $9.3 billion and should exceed $9.5 billion by the end of 2016.

The Swedish company King has stopped operating its South Korean branch.

In the first month of sales, the Lineage 2: Revolution mobile game earned $176.6 million from 5 million users in its native market.

For using the name of the kingdom from a popular game – they can also sue. NCsoft has filed a lawsuit against a company using the name of the country from the Lineage series of games.

Almost a quarter of NAT Games, run by Yong-Hyun Park, the lead developer of Lineage 2 and TERA, was bought by Nexon.

What to keep in mind when promoting games in China, Korea and Japan, — App2Top.ru Egor Karpov, a consultant for the promotion of mobile applications, told us.

The Russian gaming TV channel Gamanoid has become a mobile publisher, releasing a simulator of naval battles Navy Field on Google Play. We talked with the general director of the TV channel Anna Sharonova about the project and why the media becomes a publisher.

About how much it costs to work with the community and the press in South Korea, as well as about the popularity of discount coupons on IAP in his new article for App2Top.ru Yulia Nabieva told me.

Especially for App2Top.ru Yulia Nabieva has prepared a material about the main app stores and ways of pre-release promotion in Hanguk.

The analytical company Fiksu has studied how much it costs to get into the top 25 free App Store apps in different countries. It turned out that the most “expensive” country is the USA.

By the end of this year, the volume of the Japanese mobile games market will reach $6.2 billion. This means that Japan remains a leading player in the industry. The analytical company SuperData came to such conclusions based on the results of its own research.

Usually, if we are talking about Korean games, then either images of large-scale MMO or no less large-scale battlers immediately flash through my head. But our hero today is far from both the first and the second.