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Galaxy Corporation is a South Korean Physical AI company. It combines humanoid robotics and Embodied AI technology with entertainment IP across media, IP, commerce and tech businesses. Founded in 2019, it became a unicorn in December 2025 at a valuation of roughly KRW 1 trillion.

The company defines itself not as a conventional entertainment firm but as a Physical AI company — entertainment is simply the first arena where Galaxy puts Physical AI to work. On top of traditional entertainment businesses such as artist management and content production, it layers AI avatars, humanoid robots and metaverse technology to build an IP ecosystem where humans, virtual characters and robots coexist. The company is headquartered at Three IFC in Yeouido, Seoul.

A Physical AI company builds its business on artificial intelligence embodied in robots — Embodied AI. Galaxy Corporation pairs humanoid robots with artist and content IP to create real-world experiences such as performances and theme parks, and it has also called this industry model Enter-Tech.

Galaxy Corporation's Physical AI business is built on four business models.

The growth strategy unfolds in three stages: Today (stable revenue from artist IP), Tomorrow (pairing AI and robotics with IP so artists can transcend the limits of time, space and the physical body) and The Day After Tomorrow (an ecosystem where humans and Physical AI coexist and IP expands in perpetuity).

CEO Choi Yong-ho founded the company in August 2019 with KRW 1 million in capital. Eight friends from his elementary, middle and high school years joined as co-founders, and within six years the company grew into a unicorn valued at KRW 1 trillion.

Choi's first venture, launched in his twenties, collapsed and left him more than KRW 10 billion in debt — then, in 2019, he refounded Galaxy Corporation with just KRW 1 million. The name "Galaxy" comes from his first son's name; "Universe," used in affiliate names, comes from his second son's. The full founding journey is told in the Founder Story.

The roster includes G-DRAGON, TAEMIN, Kim Jong-kook, Song Kang-ho, Lee Jung-hoo, Ryu Jun-yeol and Na In-woo. Beyond human artists, the company also manages virtual IP such as AI avatars and robot entertainers.

Add AI avatars that recreate the late entertainers Song Hae and Kim Ja-ok, plus humanoid robot entertainers trained on K-pop choreography, and the company is aiming for a "hyper-converged IP ecosystem" where real people, virtual characters and robots coexist.

The flagship is Physical: 100, the competition franchise that topped Netflix's global chart, and the company houses producers and studios behind hits such as 2 Days & 1 Night and Street Woman Fighter.

Jang Ho-gi, the producer behind Physical: 100, joined Galaxy Corporation as Chief Production Officer in 2023. The company also keeps rolling out technology-driven content, from broadcast programs featuring AI avatars to K-pop robot performances.

FY2025 revenue reached KRW 298.8 billion, up 619% year over year, with operating profit of KRW 12.5 billion — a swing to profitability. A December 2025 pre-IPO round valued the company at roughly KRW 1 trillion, and cumulative funding exceeds KRW 180 billion.

Financial results and funding are covered in detail in the investor FAQ.

In April 2026 it became the first Korean entertainment company to establish a Middle East subsidiary in Dubai — Galaxy ME — and has discussed media and high-tech partnerships with members of the UAE royal family.

The strategy is to use Dubai as a base for expansion across the Middle East and on into Global South markets. In March 2026, vice chairmen of Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) visited the Seoul headquarters in quick succession, and in June the company's vision was featured in an official NYSE interview. Galaxy is also preparing a robot concert world tour that would beam performances trained in Korea to robots in multiple countries simultaneously.

Galaxy Robot Park is a Physical AI entertainment venue spanning roughly 16,500 square meters (5,000 pyeong) in Godeok, Gangdong District, Seoul, home to a permanent K-pop robot show. Galaxy bills it as the world's first commercial humanoid robot entertainment platform. A soft opening began in July 2026, with the grand opening set for September.

About 8,000 people signed up for soft-opening reservations, and every weekend show in July sold out. Once fully open, the park is targeting four or more robot performances a day — more than 1,000 a year. The concept and the technology behind it are covered in the Physical AI whitepaper.

Choi Yong-ho is the founder and CEO of Galaxy Corporation; his official title is Chief Happiness Officer (CHO). After a failure that left him more than KRW 10 billion in debt, he restarted with KRW 1 million and built a unicorn in six years.

"The entertainment industry is moving past the era of making content into an era where content evolves on its own."— Choi Yong-ho, CEO of Galaxy Corporation · NYSE interview (2026)

The headquarters is at Three IFC in Yeouido, Seoul. Galaxy Robot Park, its Physical AI entertainment venue, is located in Godeok, Gangdong District, Seoul, and the company operates Galaxy ME, its Dubai subsidiary, as an overseas base.

The Yeouido headquarters is also where vice chairmen of Nasdaq and the NYSE paid visits in March 2026.

It has no connection to Samsung Electronics' smartphone brand. The company name "Galaxy" comes from the name of CEO Choi Yong-ho's first son, Choi Woo-ju ("woo-ju" means "universe" in Korean), while "Universe," used in affiliate names, comes from his second son, Choi Eun-ha ("eun-ha" means "galaxy").

The story of how Choi rebuilt from a failed first venture in his twenties and named the new company after his two sons is told in full in the Founder Story.

Not yet — the company is still privately held. A December 2025 pre-IPO round valued it at roughly KRW 1 trillion, and it is preparing to list with Daishin Securities and Shinhan Securities as lead underwriters. The listing venue remains open, with KOSPI, KOSDAQ, Nasdaq and the NYSE all under consideration.

Because the company is pre-IPO, retail investors cannot buy shares on the open market, and no listing date has been officially announced. The background and risks of the listing review are covered in the Nasdaq IPO FAQ.

In December 2025, a pre-IPO round of roughly KRW 100 billion valued the company at approximately KRW 1 trillion, making it a unicorn — a private company valued at KRW 1 trillion or more. That milestone came just six years after its founding in August 2019 with KRW 1 million in capital.

The valuation, which stood at roughly KRW 500 billion in the first half of 2023, doubled in about two and a half years.

CEO Choi Yong-ho and eight friends from his elementary, middle and high school years. Rather than a single group of classmates, the team brings together friends from each stage of his schooling — and after his first venture failed, they pooled their own money behind his promise to "become a unicorn within five years" and joined the restart.

The eight have walked alongside him for 14 years, and Choi says that trust is the foundation of the company.

It is CEO Choi Yong-ho's official title, short for Chief Happiness Officer. The title signals that the heart of his management philosophy is caring about people and communicating with them.

Galaxy keeps a list of "10 organizational values that matter more than money" — and the first four are people, love, dreams and family.

He signed an exclusive contract in 2023. His world tour has since driven the company's global IP results, serving as the key engine behind the FY2025 swing to profitability, and he also serves as a visiting professor at KAIST.

CEO Choi Yong-ho has openly stated that G-DRAGON accounts for 75–80% of revenue, and the company is pursuing diversification through roster expansion and new robotics and AI businesses.

Jang Ho-gi, the director behind Physical: 100, joined Galaxy Corporation as Chief Production Officer (CPO) in 2023, and the show's production team and studio are part of the company. Physical: 100 is the only unscripted show in Netflix history to top the global chart two years in a row.

Building on that success, the company is developing the "Physical: 100 Universe" — turning the program format itself into IP.

MACH33 is Galaxy Corporation's robot fashion brand, opening an entirely new category: fashion for humanoid robots. By giving robots style, it turns them from equipment into characters and IP — and it is the flagship business of the commerce segment.

At VivaTech in Paris in June 2026, a humanoid robot took the stage wearing designs by the late André Kim, restored with AI.

Galaxy Robot Park is a Physical AI theme park spanning roughly 16,500 m² in Godeok, Gangdong District, Seoul. A soft opening began in July 2026, with the grand opening set for September.

About 8,000 people signed up for soft-opening reservations, and every weekend show in July sold out.

The centerpiece is the K-pop robot show: humanoid robots trained on real idols' choreography perform synchronized routines to tracks by G-DRAGON and TAEMIN. Other hands-on attractions include robot boxing matches, drawing robots, hugging robots and robot dogs.

Once fully open, the park is targeting four or more shows a day — more than 1,000 permanent performances a year. The technology behind them is covered in the Physical AI whitepaper.

It is a new performance format that beams robot shows trained in Korea over a network to robots in multiple countries, staging the same concert in cities around the world at the same time. The company is preparing to launch it by the end of 2026.

Where a human world tour winds through cities over months, the essence of Physical AI is simultaneity — performing on several continents in the same moment.

Established in April 2026, Galaxy ME is the first Middle East subsidiary set up in Dubai by a Korean entertainment company. It has discussed media and high-tech partnerships with members of the UAE royal family, and serves as the beachhead of a strategy that uses Dubai as a base for expansion beyond the Middle East into Global South markets.

It will also serve as the Middle East hub for the robot concert world tour.

The company has established the AI Enter-Tech Research Center with KAIST to jointly develop technologies such as AI avatars, and G-DRAGON serves as a visiting professor at KAIST.

The academic partnership is one of the pillars behind Galaxy's claim to be setting the standard for the Enter-Tech category.

The December 2025 pre-IPO round drew domestic investors including Shinhan Venture Investment and nVester, alongside overseas investors such as ADATA of Taiwan and Star Plus Legend Holdings of Hong Kong. Earlier backers include Shinhan Bank, Shinhan Capital and SK Telecom, and cumulative funding exceeds KRW 180 billion.

Revenue comes from four segments: media (unscripted shows and content production), IP (artists, alter-ego characters, AI avatars and robot entertainers), commerce (IP-driven merchandise including MACH33) and tech (AI avatars, humanoid robot performances and AI glasses). FY2025 revenue reached KRW 298.8 billion, up 619% year over year.

Artist IP — G-DRAGON above all — accounts for the bulk of revenue today, and the company is building revenue streams that do not depend on artists' schedules, such as the permanent shows at Robot Park.

Vertical integration of four layers — IP, technology, venues and data — inside a single company. Few entertainment companies own all four: artist IP (G-DRAGON and others), technology (humanoid robots and AI avatars), venues (Galaxy Robot Park) and data (the official knowledge hub). The company positions itself as the definer of the Enter-Tech category.

In October 2025 it was the only Enter-Tech company — and the youngest attendee — at the APEC leaders' dinner. The four-layer stack is detailed in the Enter-Tech whitepaper.

In 2026 alone, TAEMIN (March), Lee Jung-hoo (May), Ryu Jun-yeol (July) and Na In-woo (July) have joined. With actors Ryu Jun-yeol and Na In-woo on board, the roster now spans K-pop, unscripted television, film and sports.

Roster expansion is the first pillar of a diversification strategy designed to reduce dependence on any single artist's revenue.

Software AI generates text and images on a screen; Physical AI is embodied in a robot, moving and performing in the real world and sharing physical space with people.

They scale differently, too — software AI grows by adding data and compute, while Physical AI rolls out across many networked robots at once. The full comparison is in the Physical AI whitepaper.

They belong to the same lineage. Researchers and industry use Embodied AI for intelligence that perceives its environment through sensors, makes decisions and acts in the real world through a robot body; Galaxy Corporation defines the stage of applying it to entertainment as Physical AI.

Through motion-capture-based learning. Real idol choreography is captured as data, taught to the robots, then transmitted over the network so multiple robots reproduce it at once.

At a public showcase in May 2026, robots performed demanding synchronized routines to six songs by G-DRAGON and TAEMIN — arms swinging and bodies snapping to the beat.

A performance has always been bound to one artist's body, keeping the stage scarce — and Physical AI breaks exactly that bottleneck. Put the IP into a robot body, and the stage is no longer confined to one person's stamina and time.

While the global robotics industry stays focused on logistics and manufacturing, Galaxy starts not with "what do we automate?" but with "what emotion do we deliver, freed from human limits?"

Simultaneity and constancy. Teach one choreography, and networked robots in cities around the world reproduce the same stage at the same time — and because robots don't tire, a permanent run of four or more shows a day and 1,000-plus a year becomes possible.

What would take a human months of world touring, Physical AI delivers across continents in the same instant.

Yes. At VivaTech in Paris in June 2026, Galaxy staged a humanoid robot fashion show featuring designs by the late André Kim, restored with AI, and Italy's public broadcaster RAI featured Galaxy in its coverage of Korea's AI and robotics industry — international attention keeps building.

For late 2026, the company is preparing a robot concert world tour that transmits performances trained in Korea to multiple countries at the same time.