NHN Entertainment Corporation
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Native name | 엔에이치엔 주식회사 |
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Type | Public |
KRX: 181710 | |
Industry | Online game portal |
Predecessor | the first iteration of NHN (now Naver) |
Founded | December 1999 1 August 2013 (as NHN Entertainment Corporation) Seongnam, South Korea | (as Hangame Communications, Inc.)
Headquarters | Seongnam , South Korea |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Hangame |
Subsidiaries | NHN Japan Corporation |
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NHN Corp. (KRX: 181710) is a Korean IT company which started its business as a game company called Hangame in 1999. Currently its main businesses can be categorized as Cloud, Fin-Tech (cross-border e-commerce, payment), Entertainment (game, webtoon, music) and Advertisement. NHN has been focusing on Cloud service since 2014. It launched a comprehensive cloud solution[buzzword] brand called TOAST Cloud in 2014 and built its own IDC center in 2015 for the secure foundation of cloud solution[buzzword] business. Targeting both the corporate and individual clients, TOAST Cloud provides all sorts of cloud services including SaaS, PaaS and Iaas.
History[]
It was founded in December 1999 under the name Hangame Communications, Inc. In July 2000, Hangame Communications officially merged with South Korea’s largest search engine company, Naver. Upon the merger, the name of the company was changed to "Next Human Network", or NHN, although the two divisions continue to operate under their original brand names. On 1 August 2013 NHN was re-split into NHN Entertainment Corporation and Naver Corporation for strategic reasons. On 1 April 2019, the company name was changed to NHN again.[citation needed]
Games[]
Title | Year | Platform(s) | Genre |
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Fish Island | 2012 | iOS, Android | Sports |
Fish Friends | 2012 | iOS, Android | Sports |
Wooparoo Mountain | 2012 | iOS, Android | Social |
LINE POP | 2012 | iOS, Android | Puzzle |
LINE Dozer | 2013 | iOS, Android | Coin Pusher |
Crusaders Quest | 2014 | iOS, Android | MMORPG |
RWBY: Amity Arena | 2018 | iOS, Android | Tower defense |
Dr. Mario World | 2019 | iOS, Android | Puzzle |
Critical Ops: Reloaded | 2019 | iOS, Android | FPS |
Studios and subsidiaries[]
- NHN Bigfoot
- NHN PixelCube
- NHN Japan Corporation
- NHN Global
- NHN Singapore
- NHN Investment
- NHN Bugs Corporation (formerly Neowiz Internet Corporation, acquired from Neowiz Holdings in 2015), which trades under the Bugs! brand (often stylized as SUPER SOUND Bugs!) held a 15% share of South Korea's music streaming market at the end of 2016, according to an IFPI survey of Internet users.[1]
- JPlanet Entertainment (formerly JJ Holic Media)[2]
- How Entertainment[2]
References[]
Specific
- ^ Yoon, Sung-won (24 April 2017). "Paid music streaming services thrive in South Korea". The South China Morning Post. The Korea Times. Archived from the original on 14 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "하우 엔터·제이플래닛, '첫사랑' 등 신인걸그룹 연내 론칭 [공식입장]". entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved 16 March 2019.
General
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- "NHN Entertainment". Nhnent.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- "NHN Entertainment Singapore". Nhnent.sg. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- "NHN PlayArt Corp". Nhn-playart.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- Jordan, Jon. "Subsidiarized: NHN breaks out three independent mobile studios". Pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- "${Instrument_CompanyName} ${Instrument_Ric} Key Developments". Reuters.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
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- [1]
- "NHN and Hangame Parting Ways - Steparu.com". Steparu.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- "ASIATODAY". En.asiatoday.co.kr. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- "NHN considers separating Hangame - THISISGAME Global - beta". En.thisisgame.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
- [2]
- Software companies of South Korea
- Mass media in Seongnam