NHN posted its highest-ever annual results last year, driven by balanced growth across key businesses including games, payments and technology.

On Wednesday, NHN said it recorded 2025 consolidated revenue of 2.52 trillion won and operating profit of 132.4 billion won.

Annual revenue rose 2.5 percent from a year earlier and operating profit returned to positive territory. Both revenue and operating profit were annual records. The company said the results reflected the full-scale effects of efforts to streamline its business structure and improve fundamentals.

Fourth-quarter results were also the highest on record. Fourth-quarter revenue was 685.7 billion won and operating profit was 55.1 billion won, up 6.5 percent and 120.5 percent, respectively, from a year earlier.

By segment, the games unit posted 126.1 billion won, up 6.0 percent from a year earlier. It was supported by higher mobile game revenue, the success of offline tournaments for "Hangame Royal Hold'em" and results from a collaboration with Japan's "Compass".

The payments unit posted 345.6 billion won, up 16.2 percent from a year earlier. NHN KCP topped a monthly transaction volume of 5 trillion won for the first time in December last year, and NHN Payco achieved the No. 1 market share in the meal voucher market, supported by growth in its corporate welfare solution business.

The technology unit posted 139.1 billion won, up 17.4 percent from a year earlier. NHN Cloud, in particular, achieved its first quarterly operating profit on an operating profit basis, supported by services for GPUs at the Gwangju National AI Data Center and an expansion of public cloud transition projects.

NHN will move beyond a recovery in profitability this year and work to strengthen the competitiveness of its core businesses.

In games, it will aim to maximize the effects of eased regulations on web board games and focus on launching new titles. It will release "Oshi no Ko: Puzzle Star" for the Japanese market on the 25th, and "Abyssdia" is also scheduled for a global launch in late February.

In technology, it will focus on pre-empting the artificial intelligence infrastructure market. It plans to build GPU infrastructure based on Nvidia B200 and accelerate growth through projects including a Krafton GPU cluster deal it recently won. In payments, it will respond to next-generation payments by specifying processes such as stablecoin-linked payment procedures.

NHN CEO Woo-jin Jung (정우진) said, "2026 will be a year in which we do not stop at a recovery in profitability, but core business performance is clearly reflected in results and we create new growth momentum."