(Seoul=NSP News Agency) soon ki Lee Journalist = Lost Ark, SmileGate RPG's Hack & Slash MMORPG(Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game), has launched the open service in Russia.

Starting with this open service, Lost Ark took its first step in the global market, and will further strengthen its partnership with publisher Mail.Ru to ensure successful service deployment in Russia.

Mail.Ru, which is in charge of the service of Lost ArK in Russia, is a comprehensive portal service company in Russia, and conducts Internet service business in various fields such as search portal, mail, social network service (SNS), and game portal.

The open service began at 3 p.m. local time on July 27 in Russia.

“With this Russian open service, Lost Ark's first global market entry was done,” said Ji Won Gil, CEO of Smilegate RPG, “Since we are working with Russia's leading IT company, we will work together to maximize synergy and achieve good results.”