Kim Taek-jin김택진
Now
Co-CEO & chief creative officer of NCSOFT, leading game development and global expansion alongside co-CEO Park Byung-moo · NCSOFT
As of 2026-07-19 · source ↗
Founder of NCSOFT and the businessman-engineer who industrialized the Korean MMORPG. After co-developing the Hangul word processor, Kim founded NCSOFT in 1997 and published Jake Song's Lineage a year later; the company he still leads as co-CEO built Lineage II, Aion, Blade & Soul, and Throne and Liberty, and published Guild Wars and City of Heroes in the West.
Turned one game into an industry — NCSOFT under his leadership made Korea a global center of the MMORPG.— MMOlist Hall of Fame citation
Career
- Lineage1997–Founder & executive producer, NCSOFT
- Hangul (Haansoft)1989Co-developer of the Hangul word processor
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