Paktor Relaunches In South Korea As ‘Swipe’

E27.CO – Feb 2 – Co-founder and CTO of Paktor, Jing Shen Ng, said they needed to localise. The brand name 'Paktor' bore no cultural relevance to Koreans. The company set up a new office in Seoul and established a local team in order to better understand South Koren market. To date, Paktor has raised a total of $57.5M and acquired ~20M users globally.