Mobile games consumer expenditure South Korea 2020-2021, by game genre

Published by Statista Research Department, Jan 22, 2024
In 2021, consumers in South Korea spent around 2.8 billion U.S. dollars on mobile massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), up from around 2.4 billion dollars in the previous year. This was by far the most popular genre in terms of consumer expenditure. Open world RPGs showed the largest growth, showing an increase in spending of over 242 percent.

Consumer spending on mobile games in South Korea from 2020 to 2021 (in million U.S. dollars), by mobile game genre

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Release date

June 2022

Region

South Korea

Survey time period

2020 to 2021

Special properties

includes mobile games downloaded via the Google Play Store and iOS

Supplementary notes

Genres are based on Data.ai's Game IQ categorization as of January 7th, 2022.

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