Summary
NAVER Corporation operates Korea’s largest search portal, NAVER. Its subsidiary companies include LINE, a mobile messenger app, Snow, a video camera app, Naver Webtoon, a digital comic service, and ZEPETO, a metaverse service.
Timeline
▲ 1999 = Established as NAVER Com. Launched search portal NAVER, children’s portal JuniorNaver, and game portal Hangame.
▲ 2000 = Acquired Hangame Communication, WonQ, and Search Solution and launched an integrated corporation. Launched the world’s first integrated search service.
▲ 2001 = Launched Hangame Premium service. Renamed to NHN Corporation.
▲ 2002 = Listed on KOSDAQ. Launched NAVER Knowledge iN.
▲ 2003 = Incorporated Japanese subsidiaries as NHN Japan.
▲ 2005 = Launched Happybean, an online donation portal.
▲ 2007 = Launched NAVER Japan, a new corporation for search business in Japan.
▲ 2008 = Listed on KOSPI stock market.
▲ 2009 = Launched NHN Business Platform and Happybean Foundation.
▲ 2010 = Acquired Japan Live Door through NHN Japan.
▲ 2011 = Launched LINE, a mobile messenger service.
▲ 2012 = Merged NHN Japan, NAVER Japan, and Live Door to NHN Japan.
▲ 2013 = Reverted to its original name, NAVER. Launched Camp Mobile and LINE Plus. Renamed NHN Japan to LINE Corp. and separated its game business.
▲ 2014 = Split NAVER Business Platform and merged its advertising and platform businesses.
▲ 2015 = Launched Works Mobile, a subsidiary dedicated to enterprise collaboration services.
▲ 2016 = Listed LINE Corp. on the New York and Tokyo stock exchanges. Launched Snow Inc.
▲ 2017 = Launched NAVER LABS and NAVER Webtoon. Opened NAVER LABS Europe.
▲ 2018 = Merged with Camp Mobile.
▲ 2019 = Launched NAVER Financial.
▲ 2020 = Spun off NAVER Jet and Cake as a separate entity. Renamed Connect Foundation to NAVER Connect Foundation. Renamed NAVER Business Platform to NAVER CLOUD PLATFORM.
▲ 2021 = Spun off KREAM as a separate entity. Merged LINE with Z Holdings. Acquired global web novel platform Wattpad.
▲ 2022 = Acquired eBook Initiative Japan, a Japanese e-book platform, and Poshmark, a global C2C community platform.
