Jungho Shin
Jungho Shin, also known as Shin Jung-ho, is a creator of LINELINELINE is a messaging application and service brand launched in Japan on June 23, 2011. Developed by a team including Jungho Shin at NHN Japan, it offers messages, voice and video calls, stickers and official accounts, with associated content, commerce and financial services. LY Corporation and regional companies including LINE Plus operate its businesses, principally in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand.Open the full entry and a product executive. He has served as LINE co-CEO, representative director of LINE PlusLINE PlusLINE Plus is a South Korea-based company established in 2013 for LINE’s international business and now a subsidiary of LY Corporation. Its teams work across engineering, product planning, design, marketing and business, cooperating with regional offices on localized services. It is distinct from the LINE app and the former LINE corporation.Open the full entry and group chief product officer of Z Holdings. LY CorporationLY CorporationLY Corporation is a Japanese internet company operating services including LINE and Yahoo! JAPAN. Its present organizational structure followed a group reorganization in 2023.Open the full entry listed him as chief product officer in its April 2026 management structure.
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1972Birth and Education
2006–2008NAVER and the Move to Japan
After NAVERNAVERNAVER is a South Korean internet company founded by Lee Hae-jin in 1999. It expanded from Korean-language search and portal services into advertising, commerce, digital content, fintech, cloud computing and AI. Its group incubated LINE in Japan and participated in the integration that produced LY Corporation.Open the full entry acquired an internet company he had co-founded in 2006, Shin joined NAVER. In July 2008 he moved to Japan to lead corporate planning at Naver Japan, before the launch of LINE.[1]
2011Creating LINE
Following the communications difficulties caused by Japan’s 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Shin and his team developed LINE. A later LY Corporation interview with Takeshi Idezawa credited Shin and the team with creating it through sustained product experimentation.[3]
2012–2014Board and Global Roles
He became an NHN Japan director in January 2012, representative director of LINE Plus in March 2013, and LINE director and chief global officer in April 2014, working on products and international expansion.[2]
2019Co-CEO Appointment
In 2019 LINE appointed Shin co-CEO, emphasizing product competitiveness and innovation. He identified financial services and AI as expansion areas and advocated adapting services to individual markets and understanding local users.[1]
2021–2023Group Product Leadership
During the 2021 integration he continued CWO responsibilities at LINE and LINE Plus and became a Z Holdings director and group chief product officer in March. In April 2023 he became a representative director and GCPO of Z Holdings.[2]
April 2026LY Corporation CPO
LY Corporation’s February 2026 announcement listed Shin as CPO in the structure effective April 1. It listed him separately from the directors; this does not establish that he remained a board director or co-CEO.[4]
Related Organizations, Websites and Public Accounts
LINE, LINE Plus, NAVER and LY Corporation are associated with his product, international-business and group-management roles. Corporate disclosures document his career.[2]
Sources
- 准确把握用户需求(互联网大咖秀) [Understanding User Needs Accurately (Internet Leaders)] (opens in a new window) (in Chinese)
- Notice of the 28th Ordinary General Meeting of the Shareholders (opens in a new window)
- Strategic Growth in the AI Era: Catalyst CEO Idezawa on Leading with a Future-Back Approach (opens in a new window)
- LY Corporation Announces Its Directors and Officers as of April 1, 2026 (opens in a new window)