The view of Seoul from Kabam's office, pictured right.
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Chasing the world’s hottest game market, Kabam opens office in South Korea

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Moving fast into Asia, social game publisher Kabam plans to open an office in Seoul, South Korea, to run live operations and localize its mobile titles.

It’s a small move for now, but it could prove strategic as Kabam continues its path toward a worldwide audience and a possible initial public offering. South Korea is one of the world’s hottest mobile game markets, with huge growth thanks to mobile messaging platform Kakao Talk. And this week’s big tech stories show the importance of worldwide audiences and messaging apps — Facebook shelled out billions for WhatsApp, a messaging app with a titanic reach outside the U.S., and social gaming publisher King.com (the maker of Candy Crush Saga) filed for an IPO.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.