넥슨 2분기 매출 1조 1390억 원…메이플스토리는 분기 최대

Nexon's Q2 Revenue Is 1.139 Trillion Won, and MapleStory Posts Its Best Quarter Yet

Part of the August 14, 2026 daily edition

넥슨이 2026년 2분기에 매출 1조 1390억 원, 영업이익 2943억 원을 기록했습니다. 이는 100원당 10.63엔으로 환산한 금액입니다. 매출은 전년 동기 대비 2% 늘었지만 전 분기 대비로는 20% 줄었습니다. 영업이익은 전년 동기 대비 17%, 전 분기 대비 46% 감소했고, 순이익은 2788억 원으로 전년 동기 대비 77% 늘었지만 전 분기 대비로는 48% 줄었습니다. ‘메이플스토리’ 프랜차이즈 매출은 전년 동기 대비 63% 증가해 분기 기준 역대 최고치를 기록했고, ’아크 레이더스’는 2분기에 183억 엔의 매출을 올려 전체 매출의 약 15%를 차지했습니다. 넥슨은 8월 12일 ‘오버워치’ 서비스를 시작했지만, 3분기 전망에는 이 게임의 기여도를 크게 반영하지 않았다고 밝혔습니다.

Translation

Nexon posted revenue of 1.139 trillion won and operating profit of 294.3 billion won in the second quarter of 2026. These are figures converted at 10.63 yen per 100 won. Revenue rose 2 percent from the same quarter a year earlier, but fell 20 percent from the previous quarter. Operating profit fell 17 percent year on year and 46 percent quarter on quarter, while net profit came to 278.8 billion won, up 77 percent year on year but down 48 percent from the previous quarter. Revenue from the 'MapleStory' franchise rose 63 percent from the same quarter a year earlier, a record high on a quarterly basis, and 'ARC Raiders' brought in 18.3 billion yen in the second quarter, about 15 percent of total revenue. Nexon began service for 'Overwatch' on August 12, but said it had not factored much of that title's contribution into its third-quarter outlook.

Vocabulary

환산하다동사 (verb)to convert (into another currency or unit)
전 분기명사구 (noun phrase)the previous quarter (the one just before, not the same quarter last year)
순이익명사 (noun)net profit (what remains after everything, including tax)
차지하다동사 (verb)to account for, take up (a share)
기여도명사 (noun)degree of contribution (how much something adds)
전망명사 (noun)outlook, forecast
최고치명사 (noun)the highest figure recorded

Grammar points

N 대비compared with N, against N

Sets the baseline for a percentage. Earnings stories run two baselines at once — 전년 동기 대비 (against the same quarter a year ago) and 전 분기 대비 (against the quarter just gone) — and the same result can be a rise on one and a fall on the other, as Nexon's revenue is here. Losing track of which baseline a number belongs to is the single easiest way to misread a Korean earnings report.

Example: 지난달 대비 이용자가 5% 늘었습니다.

Users rose 5 percent compared with last month.

-지만but, although

The everyday contrastive connector, and the workhorse of results reporting when one line moves up and another down. Unlike -(으)ㄴ/는 반면, which sets two separate subjects against each other, -지만 usually keeps the same subject and turns the reading of it: revenue rose, but fell on the other measure.

Example: 값은 올랐지만 잘 팔립니다.

The price went up, but it sells well.

-(으)로 환산하다to convert into N

로 marks what a figure is being turned into. It matters here because Nexon reports in yen and the won figures depend on the rate used — 100원당 10.63엔 in this case. A converted figure is only as fixed as its rate, so Korean business writing states the rate whenever it converts, and a reader who skips that line will compare numbers that were never on the same footing.

Example: 달러로 환산하면 약 100만 달러입니다.

Converted into dollars, it comes to about one million dollars.

넥슨 2분기 매출 1조 1390억 원…메이플스토리는 분기 최대

Translation

Vocabulary

Grammar points

N 대비compared with N, against N

-지만but, although

-(으)로 환산하다to convert into N

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