Rank #2937
Kim Taek-jin
Net worth $1.3B
Online games · South Korea
- Born
- Mar 14, 1967
- Age
- 59
- Source
- Online games
- Residence
- Seoul
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 4
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, Seoul National University; Master of Science, Seoul National University
Net worth over time
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.
- 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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