NCsoft’s’second office building’ era opens

NCsoft confirmed the purchase of a planned site for the Pangyo-gu Office in Seongnam-si for about 800 billion won, and took the first step to build the’second office building’. It was named’Global R&D Innovation Center’ with the intention of targeting the global market. Employees scattered all over Pangyo will be able to work in one place due to the excess of the current headquarters’ capacity.

On the 30th, Seongnam City and NCsoft consortium signed an agreement on the sale of the site. NCsoft, Samsung C&T, Korea Local Administrative Mutual Aid Association, and Mirae Asset Asset Management are participating in the NCsoft consortium.

The site is 25,719.9㎡ of municipal land, 641, Sampyeong-dong, Bundang-gu, Seongnam-si, and is currently being used as a temporary parking lot. The sale price is 837.7 billion won, and the consortium will invest 1,871.2 billion won to build a building with 14 stories above ground, 9 stories below ground, and a total floor area of ​​330,000 pyeong (about 100,000 pyeong) by March 2026.

NCsoft uses 50% of its buildings, and has decided to name it’NCsoft Global R&D Innovation Center’ with the will to enter the global market.

NCsoft explained, “The company is concentrating on entering the global market, which is reflected.”

In addition, a space for start-up support and a multipurpose community space for local residents are also prepared. On weekends, 800 parking lots are open.

At the regular shareholders’ meeting in March, Kim Taek-jin, CEO of NCsoft, is gathering wisdom to transplant the successful experiences that have created the domestic mobile game market into the global market. “Starting with Lineage 2M, new games are more active We will continue to attack.” As part of this, NC West, a North American subsidiary last month, introduced a console-PC-based rhythm game’Fuser’ to the North American and European markets.

When the second office building is completed, employees scattered around Pangyo will gather in one place. NCsoft’s number of employees is 4115 (as of the 3rd quarter of 2020), but the capacity of the company building’Pangyo R&D Center’ is about 3,000. Accordingly, some employees are working at Pangyo Mirae Asset Center, Alphareum Tower, and AhnLab headquarters.

An NCsoft official said, “Only half of the second office building can accommodate enough employees who are larger than the current office building.”

Meanwhile, Netmarble will move into the new office building’G Valley G Square’ in Guro-gu, Seoul next February. It has 39 stories above ground and 7 stories below ground, and has a total area of ​​180,000m2, and Coway, which was acquired last year, is also moving in. Pearl Abyss is building a new office building with 5 stories below ground and 15 stories above ground in Gwacheon Knowledge Information Town. Kakao rented a whole new building in the 6-1 block of Alpha Dome City in Pangyo. From May 2022, employees of all affiliates, including the Kakao headquarters, will work here. Naver is also building a second office next to the office building in Jeongja-dong, Seongnam-si,’Green Factory’. It plans to apply cutting-edge technologies such as robotics and autonomous driving.