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Krafton said Thursday it has made a strategic investment in Neon Commerce, a global game commerce infrastructure firm, as the Korean game developer moves to build its own payment ecosystem and strengthen direct engagement with players worldwide. Building on the partnership with Neon Commerce, Krafton plans to accelerate the development of its proprietary payment system and bolster its global commerce capabilities. "This investment is an important step toward building more direct relationships w
For years, Chinese investment in South Korea's gaming industry followed a familiar formula. Chinese technology giants provided capital, secured publishing partnerships and accumulated minority stakes in leading game makers, while Korean founders of each game developer retained management control. This pattern, however, recently took a vigilant turn, putting stakeholders on notice. Wemade — a Korean game developer best known for its massively multiplayer online role-playing game, or MMORPG, franc
Artificial intelligence may be lowering barriers to game development, but Nexon Korea co-CEO Kang Dae-hyun believes the industry's most valuable asset remains difficult to automate: context. In a keynote speech at the 2026 Nexon Developers Conference on Tuesday, Kang identified "context" and "compound interest" as the two critical factors that will determine success in the AI era. "Now, games must compete through the depth of context, not based on how well they're made," he said. Kang presented
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is expected to meet Krafton executives during his visit to Seoul this week, as the two companies explore deeper cooperation in physical AI and next-generation AI computing. According to industry sources Thursday, Huang is scheduled to hold talks with Krafton Chairman Chang Byung-gyu and other senior executives during his six-day stay in Korea. Huang is expected to arrive in Seoul on Friday. The meeting follows discussions held last year at Nvidia's California headquarters
NC, formerly known as NCSoft, has turned in record quarterly earnings on the back of successful massively multiplayer online role-playing game launches such as Aion 2 and Lineage Classic. According to NC on Wednesday, it reported 557.4 billion won ($373.9 million) in sales and 113.3 billion won in operating profit in the first quarter of this year, up 55 percent and 2,070 percent from the same period last year, respectively. The Korean game company posted its best-ever quarterly PC game sales wi
LG Uplus said Tuesday it reached an agreement with Malaysian telecom operator Maxis to commercially launch its AI call assistant ixi-O in Malaysia, marking the first overseas rollout under the company’s global AI expansion strategy unveiled at MWC 2026. Maxis, one of Malaysia’s largest telecommunications providers, serves more than 10 million mobile users across its nationwide 4G and 5G networks. LG Uplus CEO Hong Beom-sik met Maxis CEO Goh Seow Eng and other senior executives at Maxis headquart
Naver will begin a closed beta of its agentic search product "AI Tab" as early as next week, in the company's most substantive defensive move yet against Google's artificial intelligence-powered push into South Korea, one of a handful of major markets where Google has never overtaken the local incumbent. The timing is notable. Google launched Gemini in Chrome in Korea on Monday, embedding its AI assistant directly into the browser that holds roughly 70 percent of the global market. Four days lat
As sustainability shifts from a reputational issue to a business variable, Kakao Bank is treating ESG less as corporate messaging and more as a question of how finance itself is structured — from its mobile-only model to plans around financed emissions, green finance and environmental risk management. For Cho Sun-young, ESG team lead at Kakao Bank, the goal is not simply to reduce the company's own footprint, but to connect environmental value with the bank's operating model, customer experience
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