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Apple Inc. released the Smartphone, iPhone, and the iPhone App used in the application in 2007. The App Store, a trading market emerged. One after another of Google's Smartphone OS, Android and associated apps and Google Play, trading market emerged. The App Stores led by the Telco emerged. Many start-ups and venture firms for app development and distribution have been founded. App economy moves the economic resources, especially, lead to employment, but cannot measure the economic effects of app-related policies. The purpose of this study is to estimate the employment effects of the app economy in Korea. In order to do so, we collected many opinions and ideas from experts, and tried to estimate the direct and indirect employment effects using our model that we created. The contribution of this study are as the following:(1) This study estimated the employment effect of the App economy using real data that passed through the strict test. (2) This study introduces the investigative concept for the employment effect of the App economy in order to estimate economic values. (3) This study tries to collect more realistic data comparing with the previous studies.