Mobile apps linked to-messaging services are taking over the two most important Asian app markets, Japan and Korea. Today,-nine out of the ten-biggest revenue generators on South Korea’s Google Play app chart are Kakao apps. It is effectively becoming impossible to launch a major hit in the Korean app market unless you use Kakao’s messaging app as your platform. This in turn means that everyone interested in mobile apps-is using Kakao.-The messaging app has turned into the dominant platform for game distribution. LINE’s role in Japan is not quite as strong, but-games for this messaging app-regularly hold about half of the positions in Japan’s top-10 iPhone and Android app revenue charts. According to several industry sources interviewed in Tokyo during

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