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Home > e-Sports Information > What's e-Sports? |
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| - Abbreviation for 'Electronic Sports'. |
- This is a term meaning a leisure activity done in a electronic virtual world, utilizing the spiritual and physical abilities
to determine the win or loss. This includes the at the place audience and broadcasting of competitions and matches.
All the community activities and the cyber culture as a whole is included in e-Sports activities. |
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e-Sports Association |
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 Secretariat
- General Assembly/Board of Directors : Establishment and amendment of regulations, Supervision of budget,
Establishment/Abolition of affiliated Committees, Groups and Assemblies, Mediation and Supervision of work
- Business Planning Department : Operation of the Association, Planning and Executing business, Media,
Marketing, Public Relationships, External Relationships and Legal Issues
- Gaming Department : Operation and Management of Matches, Registration and Management of Players,
Registration and Management of Official Competitions, Management of Home Page
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Organizations
- Registration Committee : Register, Deliberation and Resolution of Pro-gamers, Official Events and
Competitions, according to the Pro-gamer registration Regulation
- Reward and Punishment Committee : Rewards the ones contributing to the development of e-Sports,
Investigation and punishment on the ones who violated regulations, broke the law, etc.
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b. Official e-Sports Titles |
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※ 2009 September, 25 Official e-sports titles |
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RTS Games(3)
: Starcraft, Warcraft III, Avalon Online |
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FPS Games(6)
: Counterstrike, Special Force, Sudden Attack, Warrock, A.V.A. , Counterstrike Online |
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Sports Games(7)
: Fifa, Winning Eleven, Freestyle, Fifa Online, Shot Online, Sluger, MaguMagu |
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Racing Games(1)
: Kartrider |
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Other Games(8)
: Tekken, Getamped (Fighting Action), Pump it up (Rhythm Action), Tales Runner(Action Racing), KeroroFighter
(Fighting Action), Dungeon and Fighter (Action MMORPG), Batoo(Board Game), Chang Chun Online(MMORPG) |
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c. Pro-game Teams |
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Starcraft (12 Teams)
: Samsung Electronics KHAN, STX SouL, CJ Entus, KT Rolster, Woongjin Stars, SK Telecom T1,
MBCGame HERO, hite Sparkyz , eSTRO, Hwaseung OZ, Airforce ACE, Wemade FOX
(In order of Establishment-Recent update, 2009.9.1)
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d. Pro-gamers |
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Pro-gamer registration system
: This is a system to register gamers who have recorded a certain level in official competitions as pro-gamers,
making them into a new occupation group, and through attainment educations, to nurture them into related
occupational groups, such as beta testers and game competition referees, and in the end, expanding the
grounds of game users, which is the basis of development of the game industry.
: This system was approved by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in August 12, 2000, and through the
Registration Committee, Registrations, Deliberations, and Resolutions are made on Official e-sports titles,
Competitions and Pro-gamers.
Annual Change of Pro-Gamers |
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Year |
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Pro |
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Semi-pro |
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Total |
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Registration |
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Cancel |
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Total |
Registration |
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Cancel |
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Candidates |
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2001 |
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131 |
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131 |
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49 |
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49 |
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2002 |
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63 |
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- |
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194 |
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66 |
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115 |
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2003 |
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36 |
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58 |
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172 |
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94 |
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101 |
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- |
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108 |
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2004 |
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73 |
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26 |
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219 |
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95 |
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87 |
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116 |
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2005 First half |
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32 |
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11 |
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240 |
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13 |
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129 |
2005 Second half |
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21 |
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24 |
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237 |
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1 |
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- |
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130 |
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2006 First half |
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61 |
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18 |
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280 |
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118 |
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7 |
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248 |
2006 Second half |
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53 |
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22 |
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311 |
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52 |
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2 |
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21 |
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300 |
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2007 First half |
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70 |
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10 |
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371 |
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113 |
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21 |
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392 |
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e. e-Sports Competitions/Leagues |
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Competitions Hosted by the Association
- KeSPA Cup : A competition in which both professionals and amateurs compete in, the pro-amateur competition
with the highest domestic prestige
- Semi-pro draft competition (Starcraft, Special Force) : Regular competitions held by the association to nurture
pro-gamers, a qualification competition
- Korea e-sports Games
: The largest Amateur Competition in the form of the National Games. Winner gets Awarded by the Minister of
Culture and Tourism
: List of competitions held to select regional representatives
Seoul : Seoul International e-Sports Festival / Gyeonggi, Incheon : Bucheon Culture IT Expo
Daejeon, Chungcheong : Cheonan e-Sports Culture Festival / Kangwon : e-Taebaek Festival
Gwangju, Jeonnam, Jeju : Gwangju e-Sports Competition / Jeonbuk : Jeonju Computer Game Expo
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Broadcasted Leagues (Starcraft) ※ Based on the Regular leagues held in 2009
- Proleagues
: Team matches of Starcraft with the highest domestic prestige
- Starleague
: The first major individual league held domestically, hosted by Ongamenet
- MSL / Survivor Tournament
: Major individual league, hosted by MBC Game
- Others
: MBC Game : Elite School Uniform Cup School League
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Broadcasted Leagues (Other events) ※ Based on the Regular leagues held in 2007
- WarcraftⅢ
: MBC Game(WarcraftⅢ World War), Afreeca(WarcraftⅢ League)
- Special Force
: Ongamenet(Special Force Master League), MBC Game(Special Force Championship),
MBC Game(Special Force Lady's League)
- Kartrider
: Ongamenet(Kartrider League), Ongamenet(Queen of Kart - Lady's League)
- Freestyle
: Ongamenet(Freestyle Global League / Winter League)
- Get Amped
: Ongamenet(Getam League)
- Sudden Attack
: Ongamenet(Sudden Attack League)
- Fifa Online
: MBC Game(Fifa Online World Championship)
- Accro Extreme
: Ongamenet(Accro Extreme League)
- City Racer
: MBC Game(City Racer e-Sports League)
- Warrock
: Afreeca(Warrock League)
- Dungeon and Fighter
: Ongamenet(Dungeon and Fighter League)
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Regional Governmental Competitions
- Game Olympiads Suwon
- Yong-in Cyber Festivals
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International Competitions
- WCG (World Cyber Games), Held once a year
: Largest international e-Sports competition, established in 2001, with the supports of Samsung Electronics, Korea
: International e-Sports competition which began in August 2004. Sponsored by CJ from 2005.
- IEF (International e-Sports Festival)
: Changed the name to CKCG, which began in 2005 into IEF, developing into an international competition
- WEF (World e-Sports Festival), Held once a year
: International competition held between Korea and China, beginning in August 2005
- CPL (Cyber athlete Professional League), Held twice a year
: The first ever e-Sports competition established by Angel Munoz of USA in June 1997, with the sponsorship of Intel (Mainly FPS events)
- ESWC (Electronic Sports World Cup), Held once a year
: International competition which began in France in 2003, with the supports of nVidia |
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Status of Annual Domestic e-Sports competitions |
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Year |
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1999 |
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2000 |
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2001 |
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2002 |
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2003 |
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2004 |
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2005 |
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2006 |
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2007
First Half |
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| Number of Competitions |
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72 |
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82 |
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93 |
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187 |
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144 |
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98 |
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278 |
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124 |
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70 |
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| Amount of Prize Money |
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1.5Billion
KRW |
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2.0Billion
KRW |
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3.0Billion
KRW |
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3.5Billion
KRW |
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4.0Billion
KRW |
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4.5Billion
KRW |
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5.0Billion
KRW |
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3.3Billion
KRW |
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1.8Billion
KRW |
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f. e-Sports Related Media |
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- Cable TV : Ongamenet, MBC Game
- Internet TV : Gom TV, Pandora TV
- Internet Portals : Naver, Daum
- IP TV : Hana TV
- Ground Waves, Satellite based DMB real-time broadcast
- e-Sports Reporters : 23 Media including Daily news, Sports daily, Free news, Game Magazines, Online media
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g. e-Sports fans |
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| - Domestic Status of Game Population
(Unit : 10 thousand people) |
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Total Number of Internet Users |
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Game Users |
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Percentage |
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| 2006 |
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3,412
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1,894
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55.50% |
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| 2005 |
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3,301
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1,835
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59.00% |
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| 2004 |
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3,158
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1,693
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53.60% |
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| 2003 |
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2,922
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1,723
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59.00% |
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| 2002 |
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2,726
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1,199
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44.60% |
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| 2001 |
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2,438
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580
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23.80% |
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| 2000 |
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1,904
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407
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21.40% |
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| 1999 |
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943
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183
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19.50% |
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[Data:Ministry of Information and Communication 'Research on actual condition of Information-Orient '99~04] |
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