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Largest Publishing Public Companies in South Korea
Benchmark revenue and EBITDA valuation multiples for public comps like
KidariStudio, D&C Media Co., ContentreeJoongAng, Mr. Blue and YLAB.
 | 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 | +17% | $98M | $81M | 0.6x | 5.3x | ||
| D&C Media Co Ltd is a South Korea based company is engaged in publishing of books, magazines and other printed materials. It offers novels in various genres, such as romance, fantasy, martial arts, mystery, and science fiction through bookstores or books rental stores. | $7 | -34% | $84M | $44M | 0.8x | 3.4x | ||
| ContentreeJoongAng Corp publishes magazines, operates movie theaters and produces soap operas. However, most of the company's profit comes from sales of magazines. | $4 | -49% | $81M | $871M | 1.2x | 6.2x | ||
| 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 | -38% | $45M | $33M | 0.7x | (3.4x) | ||
| 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) | ||
| Median | $3 | -36% | $81M | $44M | 0.8x | 3.4x |
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