Overview
- Krafton began a voluntary resignation scheme on November 12 tied to its plan to reorganize around AI, describing it as a "growth direction" opportunity.
- Severance is tiered by tenure, from six months of pay for newer staff up to 36 months for those with more than 11 years at the company.
- Hiring is frozen across the company except for original-IP teams and AI roles, with leadership saying individual productivity must increase.
- The moves follow record third-quarter results and reported commitments to AI infrastructure and training, including a roughly 100 billion won GPU cluster and about 30 billion won for staff enablement.
- Industry peers are accelerating similar shifts, with Nexon urging an assumption that all studios use AI and Square Enix targeting AI to handle 70% of QA by 2027.