[서울=뉴스핌] Reporter Koo Yun-mo = Nexon founder Kim Jeong-joo, CEO of NXC, was belatedly informed that he invested in space X, an aerospace company in the United States. SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk Tesla’s CEO.
According to the industry on the 13th, NXC invested 16 million dollars (about 17.5 billion won) in convertible preferred stocks that SpaceX recruited in August of last year for 1.9 billion dollars (about 2 trillion won).
| Jeongju Kim, CEO of NXC. [사진=넥슨] |
NXC participated in a fund created by a domestic asset management company through a special purpose corporation (SPC). Of these, NXC accounts for about 60%.
SpaceX, established by Elon Musk in 2002, surprised the world by sending the first civilian manned spacecraft’Falcon 9’to the International Space Station (ISS) in May last year.
NXC is a holding company of Nexon. In addition to games, CEO Kim is actively investing in various new business fields such as blockchain.
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