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Largest Content Production Public Companies in South Korea
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
HYBE, JYP Entertainment, SM Entertainment, YG Entertainment and CJ ENM.
 | HYBE is a music-based entertainment lifestyle platform company. The company operates through three segments: Music, Platform, and Technology-based Future Growth. The Music segment focuses on creating artists and music IP. The Platform segment aggregates content and delivers it directly to fans. The Technology-based Future Growth segment explores and develops new business opportunities arising from shifts in the digital and industrial landscape. It generates the majority of its revenue from the Music segment. | Music+1 | $156 | -13% | $7B | $6B | 3.3x | 46.5x | |
| JYP Entertainment Corp is an entertainment company. It is engaged in music production as well as in recruiting, training, and management of new artist. | $41 | -19% | $1B | $1B | 2.1x | 7.0x | ||
| S.M Entertainment Co is engaged in the media industry in Korea. Its business involves recording and production of music. It also distributes its music and videos through the medium of internet. Apart from its core operations, the company ventures into management, casting and training for artists. | $59 | -32% | $1B | $999M | 1.2x | 3.4x | ||
| YG Entertainment Inc is a talent development and production company. It is a management company and engages in music record production. The company has produced contemporary popular music such as Jeunesse, 1TYM, Seven, Big Bang, and 2NE1. | $32 | -41% | $594M | $412M | 1.1x | 5.8x | ||
| CJ ENM Co Ltd provides media content, and online and home shopping services. It is primarily involved in television home shopping, Internet shopping mall, and catalogue sales businesses. Further, it provides accessories, electronic, sport, household products through a cable television home shopping network, mail orders and Internet. Geographically, activities are carried out through the region of South Korea. | $28 | -33% | $572M | $2B | 0.5x | 1.7x | ||
| StudioDragon Corp is an entertainment company. The company produces and sells traditional dramas, modern dramas, and other dramas. | $19 | -42% | $558M | $527M | 1.4x | 4.6x | ||
| Soop Co Ltd is engaged in offering Internet-based services around the social media platform AfreecaTV. It offers digital media storage, streaming, downloading, video-on-demand, and advertising services. Through AfreecaTV, it is not only providing fun and emotion but also a new entertainment culture. Anyone from anywhere can easily live stream in real-time without the use of any special equipment aside from PC and mobile devices. | $35 | -38% | $377M | $23M | 0.1x | 0.2x | ||
| KT Alpha Co Ltd is engaged in the content distribution, G-commerce, and Media services businesses in South Korea. The company is engaged in product sales-type data broadcasting business and mobile gift certificate business. | $3 | +13% | $161M | ($63M) | (0.2x) | (1.6x) | ||
| Samg Entertainment Co Ltd is engaged in planning and production, character licensing and merchandising (MD), international distribution, and offline theme space business. The company plans and produces their own characters and animation content and operate on their own channels on various platforms such as Internet video services ( YouTube, iQiyi, YOUKU, Tencent, etc. ), OTT, and IPTV. | $17 | -66% | $155M | $126M | 1.3x | 4.8x | ||
| Showbox Corp is a South Korea based company operates in media division. It operates as a financing and distribution company in the Korean film industry. The group has achieved extraordinary Box office records of more than 10million admissions for films such as The Host, Assassination, Chaser, Take off, The face reader and others. | $2 | -13% | $115M | $70M | 1.7x | 7.6x | ||
| KidariStudio is South Korea based representative content company engaged in developing various media content worldwide. It develops e-book, e-learning, and Webtoon content. The company publishes e-books in various fields, such as fantasy, martial arts, romance, BL, light novel, sensual novel, and other fields. | $3 | +18% | $98M | $81M | 0.6x | 5.3x | ||
| Cube Entertainment Inc is engaged in the publishing of videos, audio and original master recordings. The company produces motion graphic, music videos and promotion VCR. | $5 | -51% | $82M | $56M | 1.0x | 9.9x | ||
| Chorokbaem Media Co Ltd operates in the media industry in South Korea. The company is engaged in broadcasting programme production. | $3 | -- | $81M | ($5M) | (0.0x) | (0.3x) | ||
| Daewon Media Co Ltd is engaged in a comprehensive entertainment business related to comics and animation content. It is currently engaged in animation creation planning business, content business, character business, trading card game business, game distribution business, movie and exhibition event business, and toy distribution business, and is also involved in broadcasting business and comics publishing business through its subsidiaries and affiliates. The group has produced original animations such as Wandering Magpie, Run, Honey, and Yeongsimi; offers Yu-Gi-Oh Official Card Game, creates online games using characters such as Crayon Shin-chan and Power Rangers; and offers merchandise related to characters, among other activities. | $4 | -43% | $50M | $63M | 0.3x | 3.3x | ||
| Wemade Play Co Ltd is engaged in the development and supply of game software. Its games include the Anipang series, Disney Pop Town, Slot Mate, and Others. The group develop and service mobile games. Its revenue sources include in-app purchases generated through the sale of in-game items by launching mobile games on open market platforms, as well as advertising revenue generated by displaying advertisements to game users through advertising monetization platform. | $5 | -- | $49M | $20M | 0.2x | 0.9x | ||
| WYSIWYG Studios Co Ltd is a provider of video technology. The company engages in production and sale of movies, drama, animation movies, and VFX effects. | $0 | -74% | $38M | $45M | 0.7x | (2.1x) | ||
| Giantstep Inc is a creative studio that provides the best digital media production for various clients. It builds creative outcomes with unique perspective and techniques in feature films, commercials, music video and television industries. | $1 | -67% | $33M | $23M | 0.9x | (3.4x) | ||
| Dexter Studios Co Ltd is a contents production company which develops and produces motion pictures and TV contents. It is engaged in providing pre-visual, match-move, animation and modeling services to film industry. It also conducts workshops. | $1 | -73% | $33M | $49M | 1.3x | 122.7x | ||
| Artist Studio Inc produces story-based content, including dramas. It distributes copyrights to broadcasters through the produced content or, in the case of some content, secures rights and proceeds with content sales. | $3 | -77% | $31M | $12M | 1.3x | (4.6x) | ||
| YLAB Corp is engaged in the planning and production of webtoon, video production, webtoon education, and webtoon localization. In addition, the scope of the business has been expanded to the planning and production of video works. | $2 | -- | $28M | $20M | 0.8x | (4.9x) | ||
| K Wave Media Ltd is a company formed for the purpose of entering into a business combination agreement. | $0 | -84% | $18M | $48M | 0.9x | (0.4x) | ||
| Median | $4 | -42% | $98M | $56M | 0.9x | 3.3x |
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