Life Summary
Bang Jun-hyuk is the Chairman of the Board at Netmarble and also serves as the Chairman of the Board at Coway.

He is working to diversify Netmarble’s game genres and enhance the value of its original intellectual property (IP) by acquiring global social casino companies.

After acquiring Coway, he focused on completing its integration with Netmarble and generating business synergy.

He was born on December 23, 1968, in Seoul and spent his childhood in Garibong-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul. He did not complete high school.

He worked at small and medium-sized enterprises to save money and tried launching internet film and satellite businesses, but both ended in failure.

With a capital of KRW 100 million (US$ 72,100), he founded the game company Netmarble and achieved great success. He later sold Netmarble to CJ E&M and served as the president of CJ Internet, the gaming division of CJ E&M.

Due to health issues, he stepped away from the gaming industry for a while. However, he returned when CJ E&M’s game business began to struggle.

When CJ E&M merged its gaming business into a subsidiary named CJ Games, Bang became its largest shareholder during the process of receiving a US$ 500 million investment from Tencent in China.

He later changed the name of CJ Games to Netmarble Games and spun it off from the CJ Group.

He listed Netmarble on the KOSPI, making it the first Korean game company to do so, and is now focusing on expanding the company’s influence in overseas markets with the goal of becoming a global top-tier game developer.

Coming from a humble background, he joined the ranks of billionaires with a fortune estimated at over KRW 2 trillion (US$ 1.44 billion) thanks to Netmarble's success.

He values quick decision-making and avoids being confined by conventional thinking when making strategic choices.

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