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Kim Taek-jin occupe actuellement le rang #2869 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur médias & divertissement). Fortune nette estimée : $1.3 B (-$313 sur 24h).
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.
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.