Yonghee Kim
Game Economy Designer at Lucid Games Ltd
Seoul, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolYonghee Kim is a Game Economy Designer with 10 years’ experience crafting free-to-play monetization, item valuation, and balance systems for top Korean studios and live-service titles. Currently at Lucid Games, he combines hands-on system design with technical tooling—previous roles include senior designer and monetization lead at Devsisters, 4:33, Nexon, and consulting for NCSOFT. He builds numerical simulators and ran Monte Carlo product life-cycle simulations in Julia using raw game telemetry to inform pricing and reward curves. Known for translating player effort, in-game currency flows, and item relationships into actionable KPIs, he bridges product, analytics, and engineering to optimize revenue and player retention. Based in Seoul and grounded in a BBA from Sungkyunkwan University, he brings a rare blend of quantitative modeling and practical live-ops experience.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), 경영학, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), 경영학 at 성균관대학교 / Sungkyunkwan University
English, Korean
Github Skills (85)
excel10
science10
julia10
vscode10
visualization10
filereader10
rpg9
json-schema9
programming-language9
visualizations9
machine-learning9
hpc9
ide9
blockchain9
2d-game9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
YongHee-Kim/GameDataManager.jl
Nov 2021 - Feb 2022
Easy and convenient toolkit for game designers
Contributions:42 commits, 8 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 months
devsisters/XLSXasJSON.jl
Aug 2019 - Jul 2021
Julia package that converts excel data to json
Contributions:74 commits, 4 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 11 months
exceljulia
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