NCsoft Corporation

158-16 NCsoft R&D Center B/D, Samsung-dong, Gangnam-gu
Seoul, 135-090, South Korea
Phone: +82-2-2186-3300
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http://www.ncsoft.net

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NCsoft Corporation is an online game company based in Seoul, South Korea. The company's hit title Lineage, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), hosts more than one million active subscribers (trailing only Blizzard's World of Warcraft in total active subscribers for a MMORPG). Other prominent titles include City of Heroes, City of Villains, Lineage II, and Guild Wars, as well as lesser-known games such as AION, Point Blank, Tabula Rasa, and Exteel. President and CEO Tack Jin Kim owns about 27% of the company, and the brothers Garriott (Robert and Richard, aka Lord British, are both executives at subsidiary NCsoft North America) own about 6%.

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Company Type Public (Exchange: Korea)
Fiscal Year-End December
2007 Sales (mil.) £176.2
1-Year Sales Growth (2.3%)
2007 Net Income (mil.) £24.1
1-Year Net Income Growth 18.8%
2007 Employees 3,000
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VP and CFO Jae-ho Lee
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VP and CTO Jae Hyun Yang
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