The U.S. economy added 224,000 jobs in June 2019, far exceeding economists expectations of 140,000 new jobs. The better than expected June jobs report marks 105 consecutive months of jobs growth – the longest in U.S. history.

Over the last five years alone, overall employment in the United States climbed by 7.3%, driven in large part by massive hiring in the trade, transportation, and utility sector. Partially as a result, the unemployment rate dipped from 6.1% in May 2014, to 3.4% in May 2019 – a low not seen since the 1960s.

Simon Sim, CEO of Netmarble U.S., will sit down for a chat about the mobile industry and more at GameDaily Connect in Disneyland.

Netmarble might be one of the largest games companies that most Western gamers haven’t heard of. The South Korean giant, known for the Lineage MMORPG franchise, is worth almost $9 billion and has its sights set on the U.S. market. That effort is led by Simon Sim, president of Los Angeles-based Netmarble U.S., who will be speaking at our upcoming GameDaily Connect at Disneyland, August 27-29.