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 (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
Products	Hangame
Subsidiaries	NHN Japan Corporation

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

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]