K콘텐츠 수출 중 으뜸은 게임... 한국 게임 해외 수출 현황<br /><br />The lockdowns in many countries have driven a boost in sales of computer games as people look for ways to keep themselves entertained at home.<br />For Korea's game industry, this has led to a significant rise in exports, as our Kim Bo-kyoung reports.<br />Who is playing computer games these days?<br />Lots of people, it seems, as analytic firms say there was a worldwide spike in mobile game downloads during the first three months of this year, with mobile games downloaded 12-point-three billion times, an 18 percent increase on-year.<br />Korean games companies, which have expanded aggressively in the global market over the past few years, are reaping the rewards of this trend.<br />"The Korean game industry's total exports amounted to six-point-four billion U.S. dollars in 2018. That's more than twice what it was in 2014."<br />“One of country’s major online game publishers Nexon,... saw around two-billion US dollars of sales last year,... with more than 60-percent of that coming from outside of Korea.”<br />Nexon's most popular game globally is 'Dungeon and Fighter',... a 2-D action game that has been leading global market sales for more than 10 years.<br />Mobile game 'Kartrider Rush Plus' has also been released overseas recently, gaining popularity in Taiwan.<br />"This summer we are to release mobile-version of 'Dungeon and Fighter' in China. We are also getting ready to release 'Kartrider Drift' globally within this year,... which enables cross-play between consoles and PCs for the first time in this country."<br />Game publisher NCSOFT has also been releasing its games in around 60 countries around the world.<br />"The most popular game in the global market is the 'Guild Wars franchise' released in 2005. It sold than seven-million copies and its sequel 'Guild Wars 2' had more than 11-million user accounts."<br />NCSOFT says it will continue to expand into Europe and North America,... for example by releasing an interactive music game 'Fuser' in the second half of the year.<br />KIM Bo-kyoung, Arirang News.<br />
