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Line Friends IPX (기업)

About

Line Friends (Korean: 라인프렌즈, stylized as LINE FRIENDS) are featured characters, invented by South Korean designer Kang Byeong Mok, based on the stickers from diverse applications of the South Korean internet search giant Naver Corporation and the Japanese messaging app Line.

Description via Wikipedia (lead extract) · name cross-verified Wikidata + Wikipedia.

Verified facts

Line Friends (IPX (기업)) — verified Korean brand. Est. 2011.

Details

• Creator: Kang Byeong Mok
• Origin: South Korea
• Type: Featured characters
• Founded: 2011
• Brand: LINE FRIENDS
• Character Count: 11

Source reconciliation

• Wikidata lists the Korean name as 라인프렌즈; KoreaAPI uses IPX (기업) (chosen by source authority).

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• Wikipedia — encyclopedic article · view ↗

Verification history

Verified & tracked since 2026-08-17 · 5 verified snapshots.

Append-only, timestamped — the record of WHEN a fact changed, which a latecomer cannot backfill. Full feed: /changes.json · machine-readable: get_history("brand:linefriends").

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