The added value of the copyright industry has topped 121 trillion won.
 
The Korea Copyright Commission announced statistics showing the added value of the industry totaled 121-trillion-800-billion won in 2011, accounting for nine-point-eight percent of South Korea’s gross domestic production.
   
The industry hired more than one-point-five million people, or six-point-three percent of the total number of the nation’s employees.
    
Last year, 45-thousand people infringed on copyrights. The number of copyright violators has increased by eight-thousand on average each year since 2010 with the spread of smartphones and IT gadgets.