Proof
http://itnews.inews24.com/php/news_view.php?g_serial=307330&g_menu=020500
Here is my rough translation (online translators aren’t as good as me 
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MapleStory, a successful game company in East Asia, North America and Europe is now expanding to South America, India and the Third World Countries.
The game is called MapleStory; which has already been successful in 58 countries is now coming to this.
Nexon President, Kang Shin Chul has announced that there international business throughout the SEA (south east asia), America and Europe should be improved and MapleStory will be announced to South America and other unintroduced markets in 2008.
According to President Kang, Nexon will introduce MapleStory to India and Brazil first in 2008, which the IT Infra are made. Out of these, Brazil, which has a big market will be the first country to be introduced this year.
President Kang stated that MapleStory which has been the most successful game internationally will be the first game of the sort to be introduced in that area and currently discussing it with the gaming companies in Brazil.
In Brazil, Gravity’s Ragnarok, CCR’s RF Online and other Korean Online games are already introduced, but are not very successful at this time.
‘MapleStory is introduced to USA, Canada and other English speaking countries and started the Global service after introducing it to the SEA Market. In London, the EMS service has been operating under many languages.
This game is now introduced to 58 countries and 76 million users are playing. Especially for the global service which are for English speaking users has sold six hundred thousand items and increased revenue to 1 million 600 thousand dollars.
It has been recorded that Nexon is earning 300 billion won every year. In the year of 2007, especially international services brought much money.
It has been expected that Nexon will succed in unintroduced and new countries.
This is amazing considering, that MapleStory as a whole IS BEATING WoW :O
Anyways, Brazil should be a good addition to what is perhaps the world’s best MMORPG for free.
Original Text
동아시아와 유럽, 북미 시장에 진출한 넥슨이 그 영역을 남미와 인도 등 제3세계 시장으로 넓힌다.
넥슨은 현재 세계 58개국에 서비스되고 있는 ‘메이플스토리’를 첨병으로 이들 미개척 시장 공략을 단행하게 된다.
강 신철 넥슨 대표이사는 15일, “동아시아, 북미, 유럽에 이어 신흥 시장 진출을 통한 해외 시장 개척이 절실히 필요한 상황”이라며 “2008년 한 해 동안 남미와 서남아시아 등 미개척 신흥시장 진출을 적극 추진할 것”이라고 밝혔다.
강대표에 따르면 넥슨은 우선 해당 지역 중 가장 IT 인프라가 발달한 인도와 브라질 시장 진출을 우선적으로 추진하고 있다. 이 중 잠재적 시장성이 큰 브라질이 첫 번째 진출 국가가 될 전망이다.
강신철 대표는 “해외에서 가장 많은 성과를 거둔 ‘메이플스토리’가 해당 지역에 진출하는 첫 번째 게임이 될 것”이라며 “브라질 시장의 경우 현지 게임배급사들과 논의를 진행중인 상황인데 연내 서비스가 가능할 것으로 본다”고 밝혔다.
브라질에는 그라비티의 ‘라그나로크’, CCR의 ‘RF온라인’ 등 몇몇 한국게임들이 진출해 있다. 아직 온라인게임 시장이 활성화 돼 있지 않으나 현지 진출한 한국게임들이 일정한 성과를 거두며 향후 시장성이 높게 평가받고 있다.
‘ 메이플스토리’는 동남아 시장에 이어 지난 2005년 10월 미국, 캐나다 등 영어권을 대상으로 글로벌 서비스를 시작한 게임이다. 영국 런던에 위치한 현지 법인을 통해 유럽 지역에서 영어, 불어, 독일어 버전을 각각 서비스하고 있다.
현재 총 58개국에 진출했으며 전 세계적으로 7천600만명의 회원을 확보했다. 특히, 영어권 이용자를 대상으로 한 글로벌서비스의 경우 지난 해 2월, 한 달간 60만개의 아이템 판매로 160만 달러(약 15억 원)의 매출을 올렸다.
넥슨은 국내외 연결 기준으로 연간 3천억원 정도의 매출을 기록하는 것으로전해졌다. 2007년 들어 전체 매출의 절반 가량이 해외에서 발생, 국내 게임기업 중 해외에서 가장 큰 성과를 거두는 곳으로 꼽힌다.
넥슨이 영역을 미개척 시장으로 넓혀 해외 시장에서의 성장세를 이어갈 수 있을지 주목된다.
Using a Translator to try to read it x]
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