In Korea, billions are made on game development

This Monday, the information portal Chaebul.com He published a list of the 400 richest people in South Korea. One of them was the head of the Nexon gaming company – Kim Jag-ju (Kim Jung-ju).

But that’s not the most interesting thing. In the list of 400 people, only 6 earned their capital from scratch. The rest inherited it or earned it with the support of chaebols (financial and industrial groups in Korea controlled by certain families). And Kim, who founded Nexon in 1994, is one of those six. Now his fortune totals about $ 1.6 billion. 

Kim Jag-joo is a billionaire at 45, married, two children. Life was a successThe richest Korean is 71-year-old Lee Kun-hee, the president of Samsung, and the son of the company’s founder Lee Byung-chul.

His net worth is $11.2 billion. 

I wonder when we in Russia will start earning billions not on oil, but on high technologies and games?

Nexon is currently a dynamically developing company. Only compared to last year, its revenue increased by 46% and reached $437 million. This was partly due to the company’s good performance in China. Considering that today the company is increasingly striving for the mobile market (it recently acquired Korean studios Gloops and inBlue), I am sure we will write about it more than once.

Sources: asianewsnet.net through kanobu.ru , wikipediaPhoto: Forbes