NHN Entertainment Corporation

NHN Corporation
Native name	엔에이치엔 주식회사
Company type	Public company
Traded as	KRX: 181710
Industry	Online game portal
Predecessor	the first iteration of NHN (now Naver)
Founded	December 1999; 24 years ago (as Hangame Communications, Inc.); 1 August 2013 (as NHN Entertainment Corporation); Seongnam, South Korea
Headquarters	Seongnam, South Korea
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Hangame
Subsidiaries	NHN Japan Corporation (formerly)

NHN Corp. (KRX: 181710) is a South Korean IT company that started its business as a game company called Hangame in 1999.

Currently, its main businesses can be categorized as cloud, fin-tech (cross-border e-commerce, payment), entertainment (game, webtoons, music) and advertisement.^{[citation needed]}

History

It was founded in December 1999 under the name Hangame Communications, Inc. In July 2000, Hangame Communications officially merged with South Korea's largest search engine company, Naver. Upon the merger, the name of the company was changed to "Next Human Network", or NHN, although the two divisions continue to operate under their original brand names. On 1 August 2013, NHN was re-split into NHN Entertainment Corporation and Naver Corporation for strategic reasons. On April 1, 2019, the company name was changed to NHN again.^[1]

NHN has been focusing on cloud services since 2014. It launched the brand TOAST Cloud in 2014 and built its own IDC center in 2015. TOAST Cloud provides cloud services such as SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS.^{[citation needed]}

Games

Title	Year	Platform(s)	Genre
Fish Island	2012	iOS, Android	Sports
Fish Friends	2012	iOS, Android	Sports
Wooparoo Mountain	2012	iOS, Android	Social
LINE POP	2012	iOS, Android	Puzzle
LINE Dozer	2013	iOS, Android	Coin Pusher
Crusaders Quest	2014	iOS, Android	MMORPG
RWBY: Amity Arena	2018	iOS, Android	Tower defense
Dr. Mario World	2019	iOS, Android	Puzzle
Critical Ops: Reloaded	2019	iOS, Android	FPS

Studios and subsidiaries

NHN Bigfoot
NHN PixelCube
NHN Japan Corporation (formerly)
NHN Israel
NHN Global
NHN Singapore
NHN Investment
NHN Bugs Corporation (formerly Neowiz Internet Corporation, acquired from Neowiz Holdings in 2015), which trades under the Bugs! Brand (often stylized as SUPER SOUND Bugs!) held a 15% share of South Korea's music streaming market at the end of 2016, according to an IFPI survey of Internet users.^[2]
- JPlanet Entertainment (formerly JJ Holic Media)^[3]
- How Entertainment^[3]

References

Specific

^ "Naver Corporation". www.navercorp.com (in Korean). Retrieved 19 May 2022.
^ Yoon, Sung-won (24 April 2017). "Paid music streaming services thrive in South Korea". The South China Morning Post. The Korea Times. Archived from the original on 14 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.
^ ^a ^b "하우 엔터·제이플래닛, '첫사랑' 등 신인걸그룹 연내 론칭 [공식입장]". entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved 16 March 2019.

General

"NHN Entertainment". Nhnent.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
"NHN Entertainment Singapore". Nhnent.sg. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
"NHN PlayArt Corp". Nhn-playart.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
Jordan, Jon. "Subsidiarized: NHN breaks out three independent mobile studios". Pocketgamer.biz. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
"${Instrument_CompanyName} ${Instrument_Ric} Key Developments". Reuters.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
"Log In or Sign Up to View". Facebook.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
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"NHN and Hangame Parting Ways - Steparu.com". Steparu.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
"ASIATODAY". En.asiatoday.co.kr. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
"NHN considers separating Hangame – THISISGAME Global – beta". En.thisisgame.com. Retrieved 9 February 2019.
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[1] "Naver Corporation". www.navercorp.com (in Korean). Retrieved 19 May 2022.

[2] Yoon, Sung-won (24 April 2017). "Paid music streaming services thrive in South Korea". The South China Morning Post. The Korea Times. Archived from the original on 14 May 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2018.

[:0-3] "하우 엔터·제이플래닛, '첫사랑' 등 신인걸그룹 연내 론칭 [공식입장]". entertain.naver.com (in Korean). Retrieved 16 March 2019.

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