Push Play: Gaming For a Better World

Written by Songyee Yoon

Narrated by Kymberli Colbourne

Play is in our DNA.

We game to experiment and to learn. We play to create new worlds so we can change this one. Gaming pushes us to imagine what we can become. In Push Play: Gaming for a Better World, Dr. Songyee Yoon describes how gaming can help us craft a better world together.

Yoon is president and Chief Strategy Officer of NCSOFT, a global video game company based in South Korea. Yoon’s work lies at the intersection of expertise and equity in emerging technologies. As a leader in the industry, Dr. Yoon shares her experience as a woman in STEM and her quest for a more diverse and equitable tech community.

Through stories from her career in the gaming industry, she outlines how innovations in gaming push industries forward and create a more equitable world for all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Advantage Media Group, Inc.
• Release date: Mar 26, 2024
• ISBN: 9798887503035

Songyee Yoon

SONGYEE YOON is president and chief strategy officer of NCSOFT, a global video game developer and publisher based in South Korea. Yoon graduated from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology and holds a Ph.D. from MIT. Yoon is a trustee of Carnegie Endowment for International Peach and previously partnered with the Center for Asia Pacific Policy and the Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy at RAND to explore equitable uses of technology. She was instrumental in founding the NCSOFT AI Center and Natural Language Processing Center created to further the company's use of AI and machine learning technology. She has been named one of the 50 Women to Watch in Business by the Wall Street Journal. She resides in the Bay Area.