Gilhwan Cheong

Gilhwan Cheong is the current Growth Product Lead at Planetarium. Gilhwan has also previously worked as a Team Lead, Publishing Product Management at Riot Games from November 2018 to June 2022. During their time at Riot Games, they were in charge of leading the Publishing Project Management team in Riot Games Korea as well as managing payments and the account system for KR publishing. Gilhwan also built tools to support promotions, events and marketing activities in KR. Prior to working at Riot Games, Gilhwan Cheong was a Product Manager at SK Broadband from September 2016 to October 2018. While at SK Broadband, they worked on the Oksusu mobile OTT service which is the #1 mobile OTT service in Korea with 3.5M monthly active users. As the main PM of automated content recommending system and authentication system of oksusu, they contributed to the increase of traffic, sales and growth of the service. Gilhwan Cheong has also worked as a Product Manager at SK planet from October 2011 to September 2016 where they were responsible for product management, new business development, and HOTZIL - mobile video platform for indie video creators and small size studios.

Gilhwan Cheong studied multimedia, journalism and mass communications at Sungkyunkwan University. Gilhwan then went on to work in the media industry for several years.