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LINE is the Naver-born super-app that lost Korea but conquered Japan, Taiwan and Thailand, quietly becoming the messaging backbone of Asian markets that WhatsApp never cracked.

By the numbers

194MGlobal monthly active users (March 2025)LINE reported 194M global MAU as of March 31, 2025, including ~98M in Japan.↗

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The company behind LINE

NaverKRX:035420 · One of the layers behind Webtoon, LINE, Snow.

How attention becomes money

1 — Discover the surface

2 — Use the platform repeatedly

3 — Follow the community or creator loop

4 — Spend, subscribe, or transact

5 — Keep coming back

Label-mates · 4

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