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Largest Online Content & News Public Companies in South Korea
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
Kakao, YTN Co, Digital Chosun, Mr. Blue and Korea Business News.
 | Kakao Corp is a technology and platform company engaged in digital services, content, mobility, and financial technology businesses. The company operates through seven reportable segments. The Kakao segment provides advertising and platform-based service offerings. The Kakao Games segment covers game development, publishing, and related services. The Kakao Entertainment segment focuses on entertainment planning and content production, and distribution. Kakao Mobility offers database-based information provision services, while Kakao Pay provides mobile platform-based financial services. Kakao Piccoma operates a platform for webtoon and web-novel supply, and the SM Entertainment segment engages in entertainment planning and content production. | $32 | +12% | $14B | $10B | 1.7x | 8.8x | ||
| YTN Co Ltd operates in the internet content and information industry in South Korea. The company's business consists of divisions, namely, broadcasting channel use, real estate rental, online business, and other businesses. | $2 | +9% | $112M | $14M | 0.2x | (3.3x) | ||
| Digital Chosun Co Ltd operates in the internet content and information industry in South Korea. The company operates web portals and databases that provides internet news, advertisement, digital contents, and education program. | $2 | +76% | $70M | $48M | 1.8x | 5.4x | ||
| Mr. Blue Corp is an online comics publisher. The company provides a variety of comics and webtoons in Korea and abroad. It supplies the cartoon content to portal sites such as Naver, Cacao, Nate and google books. | $1 | -22% | $57M | $44M | 1.0x | (4.5x) | ||
| Korea Business News Co Ltd operates in media industry in South Korea. The business divisions of the company consist of three areas: broadcasting, investment information, and other subsidiary businesses. The broadcasting division broadcasts nationwide based on Korea Economic TV, the nation’s top economic channel, broadcasted through all available devices, including cable TV, IPTV, satellite broadcasting, and mobile devices. The Investment Information Division is a securities information service platform business that represents securities information site and mobile app, and the Other subsidiary include online and offline education, proxy voting for general shareholders' meetings, production and distribution of various content, exhibition event business, and cultural performance business. | $3 | -11% | $55M | $47M | 0.9x | 9.1x | ||
| Median | $2 | +9% | $70M | $47M | 1.0x | 5.4x |
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