COM2US

College sweethearts Park Ji Young and Lee Il Young bonded over video games: she liked Warcraft, he was crazy about Masters of Magic. Together they spent hours sharing joysticks in their dorm rooms at Korea University in Seoul in the early 1990s. They married, and in 1996 they gave birth to Com2uS, South Korea's most successful maker of video games for mobile phones and one of the largest such firms in the world. The company sells over 30 games — like finger-wrenching City Racer or Com2uS Bowling — to mobile operators like Vodafone, Orange, AT&T; Wireless, China Mobile and NTT...

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