Bang Jun-hyuk
Seoul, South Korea
South Korea
online gaming, Self Made
$1,600,000,000
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#13 Korea's 50 Richest 2019
#1057 Billionaires 2019
Bang Jun-hyuk is the chairman of South Korea's largest mobile-gaming company, Netmarble, which he founded in 2000.He's built Netmarble into a $1.3 billion gaming empire with its action-packed role-playing games that have become hits across Asia and the U.S. In May 2017, he took the company public, raising $2.4 billion in what became South Korea's largest listing in seven years.
A high school dropout, Bang is an outlier among the country's richest tech entrepreneurs who typically boast pedigrees from elite universities.He started Netmarble with $88,000 pooled from early investors.
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