App Annie: Chinese publishers’ revenue in South Korea exceeded US$250 million in the first half of 2018, a year-on-year increase of 53%

Chinese game developers have been making great strides in South Korea over the past year. From the first half of 2017 to the first half of this year, consumer spending on games from China on the South Korean iOS and Google Play stores grew a staggering 153%, exceeding $250 million.

Judging from the download charts, the popular super casual games in the first half of the year - "Love Balls" , "Rolling Sky" and "Dancing Line" - performed very well on the download charts in South Korea.

Tencent's PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds topped the overall overseas game download list in the first half of the year, demonstrating the global influence of battle royale games. The overall revenue list was topped by the MMORPG Ragnarok Online .