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Kakao Games Corp., the gaming unit of South Korean platform giant Kakao Corp., will call its employees by their Korean names, following a decision to abandon its corporate culture that used English names, a symbol of a horizontal work environment.
According to multiple sources from the information technology (IT) industry on Sunday, Kakao Games Chief Executive Officer Han Sang-woo said during a town-hall meeting that employees will call each other by their Korean names, followed by the honorific suffix ¡°nim,¡± instead of calling them by English names.
À̹ÌÁö È®´ë Kakao Games Chief Executive Officer Han Sang-woo
Kakao Games is the first company within the Kakao empire to bring a change. It comes after Kim Beom-su, chairman of the Management Reform Committee, called for a review of the practice of using English names last year.
Kakao has employed English names such as Brian for Kim and Sina for Corporate Alignment Council co-Chair Chung Shin-ah.
Recent legal scandals among executives, however, have prompted an overhaul of the entire corporate culture.
By Ko Min-suh and Han Yubin
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