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| Industry | Video games |
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| Founded | June 2002 in Seoul, South Korea |
| Founder | Kwon Hyuk-Bin |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products | Crossfire Lost Ark Epic Seven TalesRunner |
| Revenue | 1.577 trillion KRW (2022) |
| 643 billion KRW (2022) | |
| 63.3 billion KRW (2022) | |
| Owner | Kwon Hyuk-Bin (100%)[1] |
Number of employees | ~3,300 (2023) |
| Parent | Smilegate Holdings |
| Subsidiaries | Smilegate Entertainment Smilegate RPG Smilegate Megaport Smilegate Stove Smilegate West Smilegate Barcelona SmilegateRealies Smilegate AI Smilegate Investment Smilegate Asset Management Orange Planet Smilegate Foundation |
| Website | www |
Smilegate is a South Korean video game company headquartered in Pangyo. It develops, publishes, and services online games on mobile and PC platforms. Established in South Korea in 2002,[2] it is the creator of Crossfire, an FPS game with over six million concurrent players across the globe,[3] and many more titles. Smilegate is a corporate group owned by Smilegate Holdings. As of 2022, it was the third largest game company in Korea, according to The Korea Economic Daily.[4]
- ^ Chung, Grace. "Online Hit Game CrossFire Mints South Korea's Richest Self-Made Billionaire". Forbes.
- ^ Yoon Sung-won. "Smilegate vows to revitalize online game sector". Korea times. Retrieved November 13, 2014.
- ^ Lee Ji-yoon. "[Herald Interview] The woman behind success of 'Crossfire'". Korea herald. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
- ^ Cha, Jun-Ho; Cho, Jin-Hyoung (Nov 14, 2022). "Corporate restructure inevitable at Smilegate as founder faces divorce". The Korea Economic Daily.