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| [[KRU Interactive]] was originally known as [[NEXON INC.]], which was the US-subsidary of [[NEXON]], a prominent Korean videogame developer specializing in online gaming. [[NEXON INC.]] was founded in January 1993 by [[Sang-Baek "Scott" Lee]]. The company headquarters are located in Santa Clara, California.
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| In 1996, [[NEXON INC.]] licensed [[NEXON]]'s popular title, [[BARAM]] for a US release which was re-titled [[Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds]] for a Western audience. The localization job was performed by [[Andrew Guilding]] (who served as Senior Game Director over many of NEXON INC's projects for a number of years) and [[David Kernnely]] (who was known to players as the [[GM]] [[ORB]] ).
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| In 1998, [[NexusTK]] went "[[GOLD]]" and became a commercial "[[Pay to Play]]" [[MMORPG]]. <p>
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| Over the years, the relationship between [[NEXON]] and [[NEXON INC.]] changed. Increasingly, NEXON INC. became more of its own entity and in Feburary 2005, [[NEXON INC.]] purchased all the US rights to the [[BARAM]] 6.0 client and separated its partnership with [[NEXON]], becoming [[KRU Interactive]]. [[Sang-Baek "Scott" Lee]] is still President of the company.
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