NHN Entertainment Corporation

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

NHN Corporation
Native name
엔에이치엔 주식회사
TypePublic company
KRX: 181710
IndustryOnline game portal
Predecessorthe first iteration of NHN (now Naver)
FoundedDecember 1999 (1999-12) (as Hangame Communications, Inc.)
1 August 2013 (2013-08-01) (as NHN Entertainment Corporation)
Seongnam, South Korea
Headquarters
Seongnam
,
South Korea
Area served
Worldwide
ProductsHangame
SubsidiariesNHN Japan Corporation

Currently, its main businesses can be categorized as cloud, fin-tech (cross-border e-commerce, payment), entertainment (game, webtoons, music) and advertisement.

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.

Games
TitleYearPlatform(s)Genre
Fish Island2012iOS, AndroidSports
Fish Friends2012iOS, AndroidSports
Wooparoo Mountain2012iOS, AndroidSocial
LINE POP2012iOS, AndroidPuzzle
LINE Dozer2013iOS, AndroidCoin Pusher
Crusaders Quest2014iOS, AndroidMMORPG
RWBY: Amity Arena2018iOS, AndroidTower defense
Dr. Mario World2019iOS, AndroidPuzzle
Critical Ops: Reloaded2019iOS, AndroidFPS

Studios and subsidiaries
  • NHN Bigfoot
  • NHN PixelCube
  • NHN Japan Corporation
  • 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

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

General

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