Most successful game publishers in South Korea 2023, by market cap
As of July 2023, the video games publisher Krafton achieved the highest market cap in the South Korean stock exchange market, at around 8.7 trillion South Korean won. Krafton is a new and fast-rising South Korean games publisher best known for the popular battle royale game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG). Having only recently filed for a public listing in 2021, they had a strong start on the stock market, beating out traditional large companies within the industry such as NCSoft and Netmarble. Numbers have since dropped across the industry.