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The mobile game market in South Korea logged sharp growth of over 5 trillion won ($4.5 billion) last year amid the pandemic, data showed Thursday.
Total mobile game transactions in the country were estimated at 5.3 trillion won in 2020, up 24.3 percent from the previous year, according to data from mobile app tracker IGAWorks based on estimated sales of Google’s Play store, Apple’s App Store and homegrown rival ONE Store.
Last year’s growth far outpaced that of 2019 when it grew 5.3 percent from the previous year.
The data showed that Google’s Play store accounted for 77.6 percent of total mobile game transactions at 4.1 trillion won, followed by ONE Store with 13.8 percent and Apple’s App Store with 8.6 percent.
ONE Store, under the country’s largest mobile carrier SK Telecom Co.,…
