A bird’s eye view of the new netmarble building G Tower Netmarble recorded the highest sales ever thanks to the propaganda of its new game last year. Korea’s leading game company 3N, including Nexon, Netmarble, and NCsoft, recorded annual sales of nearly 8 trillion won over 7 trillion, proving rapid growth. 3N, including Netmarble, is now planning to release a variety of new titles this year, and continue to enter the financial market using AI technology and invest in the entertainment industry.
Netmarble announced on the 10th that it recorded 6239 billion won in sales and 82.5 billion won in operating profit in the fourth quarter of 2020 on a consolidated basis. They increased by 12.4% and 61.4% from the same period last year, respectively. Annual sales also achieved KRW 2.484.8 billion in sales and KRW 272 billion in operating profit, up 14% in sales and 34.2% in operating profit compared to the previous year. Sales hit an all-time high, and operating profit is the highest since 2017. In addition, net profit also rose 99.4% to 338.5 billion won.
Overseas sales amounted to 1.79 trillion won per year in 2020, accounting for 72% of total sales, playing a role as a driving force for growth. Compared to the previous year, it has risen 23.3%, which means that Netmarble has been trying to increase its global share. Popular games such as’Marvel Contest of Champions (Kabam)’,’Lineage 2 Revolution’, and’Blade & Soul Revolution’ are consistently good, starting with’Seven Deadly Sins: GRAND CROSS’ launched in major global markets such as North America in March last year Showed me. In Korea,’Seven Knights 2′, a mobile collectible MMORPG launched in November, has gained strength by rising to the third place in sales in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.
Netmarble, which is about to move to G Tower, which is considered a new landmark of Guro, on the 22nd will be able to prepare a new home with a lighter feeling. On this day, Netmarble announced the results and plans to raise the annual salary of all employees by 8 million won, delighting the members ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday. On the 1st, Nexon unveiled a plan to raise its salary and aimed for an excellent developer’clean sweep’. In the case of new recruits, the annual salary starts at 50 million won for the developer group and 45 million won for the non-development job group. In addition to the relocation of the new office building, it was decided to provide additional points equivalent to 100,000 won per month in addition to 100,000 won for meals from March 2009 (a total of 1.2 million P per year). It was raised to 10,000 won.
Netmarble CEO Kwon Young-sik said, “The new year of 2021 is a meaningful year for a new start in the new building’G Tower,'” and said, “In particular,’Second Country’,’Marvel Future Revolution’, and’Seven Knights Revolution’ It will be an opportunity to strengthen global game competitiveness.”
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