Kim Taek-jin
Seoul, South Korea
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Seoul National University | Master of Science, Seoul National University
South Korea
NCSOFT
online games, Self Made
$1,700,000,000
1349
#18 Korea's 50 Richest 2019
#1349 Billionaires 2019
Kim Taek-jin is the founder of NCSoft, South Korea's No. 2 online gaming company which he founded in 1997. He took the company public in 2003, and still serves as CEO.NCSoft now provides online game services to more than 60 countries. He sold most of his NCSoft shares in 2012 and now has just under a 12% stake.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.
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