Kim Taek-jin
Overview
- Source of Wealth
- Online games
- Industry
- Media & Entertainment
- Residence
- Seoul
- Education
- Seoul National University (Bachelor of Arts/Science)Seoul National University (Master of Science)
- Marital Status
- Married
- Children
- 4
Assets
- NCSOFT Corporation2,628,000 shares @ --036570-KR
Biography
Kim Taek-jin is the founder and chairman of NCSoft, South Korea's No. 2 online game company which he founded in 1997.
He took the company public in 2003, and still serves as CEO. In 2024, Byungmoo Park joined Kim as co-CEO; Park was previously CEO of South Korean private equity firm VIG Partners.
NCSoft now provides online game services to more than 60 countries.
He sold most of his NCSoft shares in 2012 and now holds just under 12% of the company.
An avid sports fan, Kim founded the Korean professional baseball team NC Dinos in 2011.
About
While still a student at Seoul National University's College of Engineering, he developed software that helped users practice typing in Korean.
He worked for Hyundai Electronics' R&D Center in Boston and later became head of a division of Hyundai Electronics that launched South Korea's first Internet access.