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Junghun Lee took over as CEO of Nexon in 2024, taking on a big role in the game industry from his predecessor Owen Mahoney, who spent 10 years in the role. For a CEO who runs a game company with more than 10,000 employees and more than a billion players to date, Lee isn’t well known.
Yet Lee is a big part of why Nexon is giving us games like ARC Raiders.

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