• Play Museum Lobby
  • Good Friends Cafe
  • Port 629 Cafeteria
  • Support Center
  • Support Desk
  • Hive Work Space
  • WE!PLACE Auditorium
  • Track Gym
Play Museum Lobby

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About

NHN is a global IT company with an expansive IT-based business portfolio
which includes game, payment, entertainment, IT and advertisement.

On 1st Aug 2013, NHN Entertainment was established by split of NHN, the largest internet company in Korea.
On 1st Apr 2019, NHN Entertainment changed its name to NHN again to succeed the symbolic value of NHN as a Korean top IT company and
to jump up to become a global leading IT company.
On August 1st, 2021 NHN has declared the Vision to become the Global Tech Company in 2030 based on four pivot businesses - Cloud/Commerce/Contents/Payment.

History

  • 1998
  • 2013
    • 8

      Spun off from
      NHN Corporation
      to become
      NHN Entertainment

    • 10

      Launched webtoon
      service'Comico'

  • 2017
    • 4

      Established
      NHN PAYCO from
      NHN Entertainment
      through split-off

    • 7

      Established digital
      advertising company
      'NHN ACE Corp.'

  • 2019
    • 2

      Annual sales exceeded
      1 trillion KRW

    • 4

      Changed company
      name to 'NHN'

  • 2023
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  • 1998. 11

    Incorporated Hangame Communications

  • 1999. 12

    Launched Korea's first online game portal 'Hangame'

  • 2000. 4

    Merger of Hangame-Navercom

  • 2001. 8

    Hangame kicked off online game publishing business

  • 2001. 9

    Changed corporate name to
    NHN Corporation

  • 2002. 10

    Listed on KOSDAQ

  • 2004. 11

    Established 'NHN Games.' game developing studio

  • 2005. 7

    Established US branch 'NHN USA'

  • 2007. 5

    NHN USA kicked off 'ijji.com,' game portal service

  • 2008. 11

    Listed on KOSPI

  • 2009. 09

    Established Hangame Japan

  • 2010. 04

    Incorporated NHN Investment, investment company

  • 2011. 1

    Established 'Orangecrew,' smartphone game developer

  • 2012. 1

    Incorporated NHN SINGAPORE PTE., LTD.

  • 2013. 8

    Spun off from NHN Corporation to become NHN Entertainment

    Moved into Play Museum, the new headquarters building in Pangyo for NHN Entertainment

    NHN Entertainment listed on KOSPI

  • 2013. 10

    Launched webtoon service 'Comico'

  • 2014. 2

    Established game development affiliates (NHN PixelCube and so on)

  • 2014. 4

    Acquired DB security solution company, 'PNP Secure Inc.'

  • 2014. 6

    Acquired ticket booking site Ticketlink (now renamed as NHN Ticketlink Corp.)

  • 2014. 8

    Acquired online shopping solution company Godo Soft Corp.
    (now renamed as NHN Godo Corp.)

    Established Taiwan corporate body 'NHN Taiwan Corp.'

  • 2014. 9

    Acquired Korea Cyber Payment
    (now renamed as NHN KCP Corp.)

  • 2014. 12

    Launched 'NHN CLOUD'

  • 2015. 7

    Acquired Neowiz Internet
    (now renamed as NHN Bugs Corp.)

  • 2015. 8

    Launched simple payment service 'PAYCO'

  • 2016. 4

    Established 'NHN Good Friends,'
    the first standard workplace for
    the disabled in Pangyo Techno Valley

  • 2017. 4

    Established NHN PAYCO from
    NHN Entertainment through split-off

  • 2017. 7

    Established digital advertising company 'NHN ACE Corp.'

  • 2017. 8

    Established 'NHN Vietnam Company Limited' in Vietnam

  • 2017. 12

    Acquired cloud security authentication and launched 'G-TOAST Cloud' service for public organizations

  • 2018. 03

    Established game development company 'NHN Bigfoot'
    (through merging NHN Studio 629
    and NHN Blackpick)

  • 2018. 9

    Tour operator 'TOURBAKSA'
    Acquisition

  • 2018. 11

    Held tech conference
    'NHN FORWARD'

    Received Employment and Labor
    Minister’s prize from Asia Women
    Index Awards

  • 2019. 2

    Annual sales exceeded 1 trillion KRW

  • 2019. 4

    Changed company name to 'NHN'

  • 2020. 7

    Establishment of technology specialized corporation 'NHN SOFT'

  • 2020. 12

    Awarded "Cloud Industry Development Contribution Minister Citation"

    Awarded "Korea Energy Grand Prize Presidential Citation"

  • 2021. 05

    Establishment of Data Description Specialized Enterprise, 'NHN DATA'

  • 2021. 08

    Establishment of All-in-One collaboration SaaS Company 'NHN Dooray'

  • 2022. 02

    NHN BIGFOOT, Integration of 3 Game branches of NHN

  • 2022. 03

    Establishment of NHN ESG committee

  • 2022. 04

    Establishment of Cloud Specialized Corporation, NHN Cloud

  • 2022. 10

    NHN Bigfoot merged into NHN

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NHN

NHN offers a wide array of services including game, webtoon, music, advertisement,
commerce, fintech and cloud based on its expertise in IT operation as well as its
technology and service operation skills. The CI of NHN suggests a deeper meaning of
'connect' connecting the values, time, space and generation all closely interconnected
surrounding the value of 'entertainment' as symbolized through the hyphen connecting
alphabet N and another N. The representative color of the company 'red' symbolizes
challenge, passion and fun while the 5 sub-colors are used to express liberal corporate
image of another level that also reflects various entertainments and services that the
company offers.
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Culture

  • Work & Life
    Work & Life

    Grow together by working smart and resting enough

  • Purple Time
    Purple Time

    Flexible system that respects each individual’s life style

  • We Family!
    We Family!

    Special day for inviting families of our employees

  • 40+ club
    40+ club

    Special health care program for employees over 40

Location

NHN Play Museum, 16 Daewangpangyo-ro 645beon-gil, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do, 13487, Korea

TEL
+82-1544-6859 (ARS)
FAX
+82-31-8038-3000