When the news came out last week that Jaeho Lee, former chief financial officer for NCsoft,
would be taking over as CEO of NCsoft West, a lot of people (including press) assumed that he would be calling the shots from Korea -- after all, NCsoft had said that the change was about "global management" and working together across business units. However,
we are now being told that Lee will make the journey to Seattle to join the NCsoft West team. In response to the
earlier reports of NCsoft shifting leadership of its Western division to Korea, a rep had this to say to Gamasutra:
"Jaeho Lee is moving to Seattle, so nothing has shifted except him. A similar change of personnel happened in our Japan office, so this was a strategic move on the part of our headquarters in Seoul to streamline global management."The rep also mentioned that Lee ran other departments such as marketing and production while in his position as chief financial officer.
