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League of Legends

Korean Esports Teams: T1, Gen.G, Hanwha and Who Owns Them

Categories K-Games & Esports 12 min read
2018 League of Legends All-Star Stage (korean esports teams)

Korean esports teams centre on the 10 clubs in the LCK (League of Legends Champions Korea), and most of them carry the name of a telecom, an insurer, a bank or a food company. T1 grew out of SK Telecom, Gen.G descends from Samsung’s old teams, and Hanwha Life Esports belongs to an insurer inside the Hanwha Group. Learn who owns a team and you can usually guess how it spends, how it behaves, and which rivalry it’s cau…

Why Korea Is Good at League of Legends: 5 Reasons, One System

Categories K-Games & Esports 10 min read
League-of-Legends-Wild-Rift Final Four opening at eSports Stage 20210130a (why korea is good at league of legends)

Why Korea is good at League of Legends: its teams won every Worlds title from 2013 to 2017. That run grew out of two decades of groundwork: PC bang culture, a ladder packed with elite players on one fast server, team houses that make practice a full-time job, and the LCK, which Riot Games has run as a franchised league since 2021.