Top 1% of YouTubers earn 1.3 billion won a year - ”Tax investigation should be conducted” - Korea

It has been found that the top 1% of YouTubers and internet broadcast hosts (BJs) earn an average of more than 1.3 billion won (about 140 million yen) per year.
On the 28th, Jung Il Woo, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, said that according to documents submitted by the National Tax Service, last year, YouTuber BJ and other media operators were
The total amount of income reported was 1.7861 trillion won (US$1.81 billion). As of last year, the number of people who reported income as independent media creators was 24,797.
The number has increased significantly every year: 1,327 in 2019, 9,449 in 2020, 16,294 in 2021, 19,290 in 2022, and 24,797 in 2023.
The survey also showed that annual incomes are on the rise. The top 1% of earners, 247 people, earned a total of 327.1 billion won (approximately 35.1 billion yen, an average of 1.3 billion yen per person).
25 million won (approximately 142.3 million yen). Jeong said, "Although the annual income of YouTubers and BJs has been increasing rapidly every year, the number of tax investigations has been almost the same in the last three years.
"There has been no significant increase in the number of videos uploaded," he said, adding, "The National Tax Service should conduct rigorous, systematic and comprehensive tax investigations to prevent the mass production of provocative and extreme content."