Overview
- The program was announced internally on November 12 for domestic employees and offers 6 to 36 months of salary based on tenure.
- Krafton characterizes the offer as support for employees to choose new paths rather than a workforce reduction.
- CFO Bae Dong-geun confirmed a hiring freeze across the company except for original-IP and AI roles, saying individual productivity must increase.
- The AI plan allocates roughly 100 billion won for GPU cluster infrastructure and about 30 billion won annually beginning in 2026 for tool adoption and retraining.
- The shift follows record Q3 results of 2.407 trillion won in revenue and 1.052 trillion won in operating profit, while studio Unknown Worlds says it will not use AI for Subnautica 2.