Popular video service traffic increases 17% in one year in South Korea

In terms of traffic by content type in the October-December 2024 period, video accounted for 57.3% of the total. This was revealed in wireless data traffic statistics from the Ministry of Science and ICT of Korea.
The highest figure to date was 61.7% in October-December 2021. The statistics are published after analyzing the top 40 websites in terms of traffic every quarter.
Traffic volume has continued to increase since recording an average of 10,000 TB per day for the first time in 2021. It is expected to reach 16,498 TB in the October-December 2024 period.
B, up 17.2% from the same period last year. This is due to the fact that Netflix, YouTube, Tving and other Korean and international platforms are
According to the Mobile Index by IGA Works, a company that analyzes big data, as of January, YouTube
The number of Ube users is 47.03 million. The total usage time is 2.2 billion hours, which is an increase of about 14% in the past year. Similarly, Netflix has 117 million hours and Tving has 49 million hours.
The number of hours of service on the OTT network has increased by 100 million, while the number of hours of service on the Wavve network has reached 43.3 million. Due to this increase in traffic, Korean carriers have begun to ask major OTT companies to pay them higher network usage fees.
The current situation is that they are demanding payment.