KRAFTON, Inc.
South Korean video game publisher and holding company, founded in 2007, whose studios created PUBG: Battlegrounds and develop and publish games across mobile, PC and console.
KRAFTON, Inc. is a South Korean video game publisher and holding company that discovers and publishes games through a network of development studios. Its best-known creation, PUBG: Battlegrounds, pioneered the battle royale genre and has attracted hundreds of millions of players worldwide. The company works across mobile, PC and console, and its stated ambition is to build immersive virtual worlds and to treat games as a leading creative medium.
Creative work is spread across a portfolio of studios with distinct identities, including PUBG Studios, Bluehole Studio, RisingWings, Striking Distance Studios, Dreamotion, Unknown Worlds Entertainment, 5minlab, Neon Giant and Tango Gameworks. The studios contribute to gameplay design, battle royale game design, IP development and interactive entertainment technology, and are encouraged to pursue distinctive creativity and original intellectual property. The company describes its vision as pioneering the path to players' dreams by combining bold imagination with technological development.
Founded in 2007 by Chang Byung-gyu, KRAFTON was reorganised as a holding company in November 2018 as the parent of Bluehole and its subsidiaries. It employs more than 3,400 people worldwide and is headquartered in Bundang District, Seongnam, South Korea, with global operations.