Era of Global Growth Rate 2.8%, Korean Economy and Digital Content: In April 2025, the IMF revised its global economic growth rate projection downward from 3.3% to 2.8% through its latest World Economic Outlook report. This suggests that the recovery momentum after the pandemic is slowing and the international political-economic order is facing another structural inflection point. Particularly, the high tariff policies of the US strengthened since Donald Trump successfully won reelection in 2024 are cited as the core cause of this adjustment. The Korean digital content response strategy: as traditional manufacturing exports face tariff headwinds and global growth slows, Korea is looking to digital content as a trade surplus sector immune to tariffs; digital content (K-pop, K-drama, Korean games, webtoons) is distributed digitally and therefore not subject to physical goods tariffs; the global Hallyu wave creates demand pull for Korean digital content that is relatively insensitive to economic cycle; the challenge is building the digital content industry infrastructure to scale production and international distribution in ways that maximize value capture in Korea.