Singer Lim Young-woong earned 15.5 billion won in revenue in 2025 alone.
According to the Fish Music audit report disclosed on the Financial Supervisory Service's electronic disclosure system on the 13th, the settlement payment Lim Young-woong received in 2025 totaled 14.564428 billion won.
This is the amount for artist service fees, and considering that Fish Music's only signed artist is Lim Young-woong, it refers to the settlement payments he received from the company. In addition, Lim Young-woong, who holds 50% equity in Fish Music, received about 1 billion won in dividends due to an interim dividend of about 2 billion won last year.
Combined, the total revenue Lim Young-woong received through Fish Music is about 15.5 billion won.
The company also benefited from rising performance. Fish Music's 2025 sales were 32.01662 billion won, up more than about 10% from the previous year (28.92100 billion won), and music, albums and concert income accounted for the largest share at 19.55609 billion won.
However, advertising income decreased somewhat. Fish Music, which earned about 3.34551 billion won in advertising revenue in 2024, earned about 2.13333 billion won in 2025, showing a decline of nearly 40%. However, media content income drew attention by rising more than 14 times from about 470 million won in 2024 to 6.74316 billion won in 2025.
In addition, operating profit rose 20% year on year to 10.62581 billion won, and net income for the period recorded 9.34658 billion won, maintaining a stable profit.
Meanwhile, Lim Young-woong concluded the final schedule of his national tour by holding the "Lim Young-woong IM HERO TOUR 2025-26" Busan concerts from Feb. 6 to 8 at halls 1 and 2 of Busan Exhibition & Convention Center (BEXCO) Exhibition Hall 1.
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