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Zurich15361 Posts
Hello please introduce yourself
Hello Teamliquid family, my name is Kim Sun Moon, my English name is Harry. I was born in 1977 and I am a freelancing journalist for Fomos.
So you are a reporter for FOMOS progaming news site. How did you get involved in the esports scene, were you a BW player?
I wanted to become a pro gamer in 1999 when my military service ended and the Broodwar expansion just came out. A roommate of mine showed me Starcraft Broodwar at school and it was so much fun that I didn't even go to school for one week, I was just playing.
At this time Starcraft was still not that big but there were tournaments like the PC bang league of Pusan where I participated. I was majoring in Theater and Movies and my dream was to become an actor. Because I studied hard for that I didn't have that much time for practice and that is why I didn't make it as a pro gamer.
In 2002 other games became big in Korean e-sports and I played competitively in a game called Artrox. But since I was 24 already I felt like I was too old now to become a pro gamer. Nevertheless I still loved e-sports so I got into e-sports media. Back then I was working for MCBGame as a commentator for lesser known games.
 Xeofreestyler with Harry
I used to work for MyDaily for 2 years, and after that I went to ESWC league in China for 7 months to stay with the Counterstrike team. When I came back from China I was looking for a job and asked friends I knew at Fomos so this is how I ended up there.
What do you think the best part of your job is? What is the most challenging/difficult part of your job?
It is fulfilling to inform the people and the community and I really appreciate their feedback and I like to read their comments. The difficult part is that as a freelancer you have to invest a lot of time on your own. For example I wanted to learn English but I was so busy with work I had to quit my classes. Also the pay for internet based news could be better.
So you are here at the world cyber games to report for FOMOS. How has your experience in Germany been? Any highlights?
I really really like the beer. In Korea I went to all the German bars to try out all the beer and to come here now to try all the different types of beer makes me really happy.
The funniest experience was when I was trying to find Silvanos house but I was so lost. I was on the phone with Silvano, but he was trying to talk Korean and I was trying to talk English and we couldn't understand each other at all. In the end it all worked out though and I was really relieved to see him.
Recently there have been many good players rising and defeating each other - it is much harder to win multiple titles now.
Do you think we will ever have another Bonjwa? Who do you think it will be?
Let's see, in 2006 Savior was Bonjwa, then in 2007 it was Bisu and now in 2008 it is Stork. You can see from this pattern that it is very difficult for one player to be dominating for more that one year. I don't think there will be another player who can do that in the future.
Stork won his first OSL after many 2nd place finishes. What are your thoughts on this? Do you think he can maintain this current domination?
He has the potential but it depends on his own determination and he will also need a little bit of luck, but in times like these with so many good players you can't really predict anything anymore.
At Blizzcon, Ma Jae Yoon said he would make a comeback in 2009 and has been winning more games. Do you feel he is out of his slump? Do you think he can rise to dominance again?
It's about 50-50. Looking at the Proleague games Ma Jae Yoon played I have mixed feelings. His opponents weren't among the best players but you could sense that some of Savior's old fire was back.
But the reason why I think a Bonjwa can't last anymore is because when a player is at the top, everyone will start studying and analyzing his play. So if Savior wants to be at the top again he really has to reinvent himself.
The press in Korea thinks he will be able to come back though.
Many of the WCG Broodwar games were not broadcasted, did you see any offstage matches and did any foreign players impress you?
I saw the foreigners play and I could tell they were imitating the pro gamer builds, but their execution is always a little slower. For example I watched Draco and his gateways and build was always a couple of seconds behind the execution of a Korean pro gamer.
Recently GOMTV started broadcasting matches in English with English commentators. Do you think more Korean companies like MBC, OGN, Fomos will follow along with this in the future?
No, I don't think it will happen. It takes a lot of money to broadcast internationally so the companies are afraid of losing their investment because they don't think it can be profitable in the end.
Have you had a chance to try Starcraft 2 yet?
Yes I did. The game reminded me a little of Warcraft3. I played PvP against Garimto and the score was actually 1-2.
I think it will be a great game and when it comes out I won't leave the house for 2 months.
How do you feel about the changes that have been made to the mechanics? MBS, Automine etc
It is not necessarily a bad thing because players can focus on strategy and the game is not as mechanical. There could be a wide variety of play styles rather than the purely mechanical style of Starcraft Broodwar.
Naruto and Snowbird have shown you the foreign community and what we do, what do you think about the foreign fans?
They are very passionate about Starcraft. Back in the days of Boxer the Korean fans were like that, they were fans of the game. Now there are many fan girls and casual fans who just come for the stardom.
Any final words or shoutouts?
I hope Teamliquid fans will keep their passion and will keep cheering for Starcraft. Many Korean journalists don't know how passionate the foreign fans are and I see it as my task now to get the word out to them. I really like to learn English too, so if there is a nice girl out there who wants to teach me English .... kekekeke.
Everyone thank Naruto for setting this up and Snowbird for translating please!
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Thank all of you big ole pimps who brought wcg2008 to tl.net and brought the world together yet again.
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Thankyou for the interview! Seems like a cool guy !
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I talked with Harry and He's translator, they both are so friendly.
Harry speaks little bit Chinese, in the chat he told me that he likes Chinese cigarette "Zhong nan hai".So Chinatttt decided to give him one...
He was soo happy when he got chinese cigarette lol
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NeverGG
United Kingdom5399 Posts
'I really like to learn English too, so if there is a nice girl out there who wants to teach me English .... kekekeke.' Oh I'm going to tease him about this so badly when I next see him. Harry's been really great to me and my friends since we met him - helping us with events and just being an all round awesome guy. Nice to hear more of his thoughts on gaming.
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wow, ask him to create a tl account and meet the tl community!
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This guy is awsome, he is funny like hell and got also a great voice.
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I've seen nothing but praise for the guy in all these WCG threads, sounds like a champ of a guy.
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MrHoon
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I like his honestly and insight
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Hong Kong20321 Posts
omg sweet
he seems really nice :D:D:D:
thanks :D
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yeah very nice interview, he seems cool
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This guy is awsome, he is funny like hell and got also a great voice.
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3861 Posts
he's the guy who started me off in the e-sports scene when i first got here. ^^
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^__________^ Harry ownez like hell. I had so much fun with him hahaha :D! When we watched VODs at my place he was commentating.. so awesome lol!
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Belgium6774 Posts
One of the coolest dudes ever seriously
tell him to join TL! good way to practice his english
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Good interview, was nice to read! Ah, it seems so awesome to like uhm work for some site doing writeups. Does he get paid by FOMOS to go to WCG/ESWC etc? Probably yes.
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
Good interview. Thanks Naruto and snowbird
Harry seems like a cool guy
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niiice interview, cool that u got ahold of him
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He played Atrox? wtf awesome :D
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Seems like a great guy...glad he took the time to talk to us.
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haha, Harry is the craziest asian i ever met 
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ahaha my feet and hands were cringing when i saw that video.
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Lols. . . ! Has anyone seen this game, Atrox, that he mentioned? Kind of reminded me of something, can't put my finger on it though. Here are some screenshots. Help me out here?
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United States17042 Posts
he seems really cool. Have him try to translate things for the tl.net community and provide news xD it would help his english...
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Seems like a baller.
Also, such a cool name, comon, ?
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On November 11 2008 20:06 nevergg wrote:
'I really like to learn English too, so if there is a nice girl out there who wants to teach me English .... kekekeke.' Oh I'm going to tease him about this so badly when I next see him. Harry's been really great to me and my friends since we met him - helping us with events and just being an all round awesome guy. Nice to hear more of his thoughts on gaming.
Of course you will... No photoshoots in the press I hope.
On a side note, nice interview. I honestly would have gone about life without knowing who he was. Seems like an interesting guy, and I hope to see more from him in the future. Interesting life as well.
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Atrox looks like a pretty cool game. That guy sounds like a cool person to meet
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Nice! Someone who thinks SC2 is good :p
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Good interview...I like his comparatively blunt answers. haha.
EDIT
I just looked at the Atrox screenshots, and tbh, they look like ripoffs of starcraft alpha...
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harry's a great guy who helped me out a lot at WCG.
고마워요 형 : )
his answers were actually a lot funnier, most of it just gets lost in (my bad) translation : P
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Calgary25991 Posts
Wow I missed this. Nice nice nice. He said my Korean was good, which warmed my frigid heart after dealing with ILoveZil -_-.
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On November 12 2008 06:43 PH wrote:
Good interview...I like his comparatively blunt answers. haha.
EDIT
I just looked at the Atrox screenshots, and tbh, they look like ripoffs of starcraft alpha...
That's basically what it is.
OGN had several leagues for other RTS games like Jurassic War, Seven Years War, Age of Mythology, Command and Conquer, Atrox and of course Warcraft. Actually, a lot of SC progamers also played in leagues for these games, too. BlueK, Lovedom, Elky, Skelton, Anyppi, ect all played in leagues for other games while they were SC progamers.
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cool interview.. i usually prefer these over progamer interviews, since most progamers frankly aren't very interesting. as artosis would say, a lot of these guys are just robots =o
would be nice if he could post on TL, but tbh a lot of fomos articles get translated by scforall anyway, so It's not like he'd have to post a bunch of news in english or something.
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United States3824 Posts
Wait we are more passionate than the fans in Korea? Maybe we are weirder than we thought.
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On November 13 2008 07:59 cgrinker wrote:
Wait we are more passionate than the fans in Korea? Maybe we are weirder than we thought.
well i think theres a ton of passionate fans in korea, but like he said in the interview - atm there is a ton of ppl watching sc for reasons unrelated to the strategic depth of sc.. for example, I saw a vod on scforall where Daniel Lee said that most sc fans in korea atm are actually female. from what I gather though - starcraft is not a popular game to play among korean females(they generally prefer to play FPS moreso than SC), but they might become a big fan of a certain player, due to his looks or perhaps personality and just get caught up in cheering for him and following his stardom.
The hardcore sc fans(mostly male, although there are a lot of casual male fans too), just love the game.. and although they probably have favourites of who they want to win a certain match - they're watching because they enjoy watching sc matches as much if not more than they enjoy watching other sports or even full featured films. The games take on a whole new meaning for us hardcore fans, we tend to understand more of the psychology and strategic aspect of the game, since we've played it.. and therefore we can enjoy it on a deeper level, rather than only enjoying starcraft when our favourite player or team might be playing.
that is mostly what i've gathered in talking in depth with koreans, and also watching daniel lee vods anyway :O
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On November 13 2008 07:20 Chill wrote:
Wow I missed this. Nice nice nice. He said my Korean was good, which warmed my frigid heart after dealing with ILoveZil -_-.
엘오엘!
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Netherlands19137 Posts
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On November 14 2008 00:29 ilovezil wrote:Show nested quote +On November 13 2008 07:20 Chill wrote:
Wow I missed this. Nice nice nice. He said my Korean was good, which warmed my frigid heart after dealing with ILoveZil -_-. 엘오엘!
ㅋㅋ
안녕 질님~ 사랑해요.
노우 호모 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
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Calgary25991 Posts
On November 14 2008 00:48 clazziquai wrote:Show nested quote +On November 14 2008 00:29 ilovezil wrote:On November 13 2008 07:20 Chill wrote:
Wow I missed this. Nice nice nice. He said my Korean was good, which warmed my frigid heart after dealing with ILoveZil -_-. 엘오엘! ㅋㅋ 안녕 질님~ 사랑해요. 노우 호모 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
lolll
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On November 14 2008 02:29 Chill wrote:Show nested quote +On November 14 2008 00:48 clazziquai wrote:On November 14 2008 00:29 ilovezil wrote:On November 13 2008 07:20 Chill wrote:
Wow I missed this. Nice nice nice. He said my Korean was good, which warmed my frigid heart after dealing with ILoveZil -_-. 엘오엘! ㅋㅋ 안녕 질님~ 사랑해요. 노우 호모 ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ lolll
Got it. You speak korean. Care to translate? ^^
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Haha nice interview! hope you enjoyed talking to him!
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Calgary25991 Posts
ㅋㅋ
haha
안녕 질님~ 사랑해요.
hi mr zil. i love you. (I don't know if this is supposed to be "ILoveZil" or the way I wrote it)
노우 호모
no homo.
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infinity21
Canada6683 Posts
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nice interview :D
thanks, mates
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