Krafton

Krafton was set up on 5 November 2018 as the parent of Bluehole, which Chang Byung-gyu founded in Seoul in March 2007. It is headquartered in Gangnam, Seoul, and has been listed on the Korea Exchange (259960) since its IPO on 10 August 2021.

It publishes and develops games including PUBG: Battlegrounds, inZOI and TERA, and owns studios such as PUBG Studios, Unknown Worlds (Subnautica), Striking Distance Studios (The Callisto Protocol), Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush) and Eleventh Hour Games (Last Epoch). It also has an AI research unit and a robotics spinout, Ludo Robotics.

Wikipedia gives at least 3,400 employees; Krafton's own pages could not be opened for a current figure. Development sites include Seoul, Madison in Wisconsin, San Ramon in California, Montreal, Amsterdam and Japan.