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Physician
United States4146 Posts
His name is Hwang Jae Hoon, although he likes to be known as Jay. For many of you the name may not ring any bells but he is currently "the" editor of Fighterforums. He was a reporter for a daily sports newspaper in Korea and Fighterforums, also know as FiFo, was just a "hobby". One day however after some encouragement from his friends and an organization like KeSPA he quit his offline job and dedicated himself fully to FighterForums. When he writes, the Korean Starcraft community reads.
The Interview
http://www.ogaming.org/comment.php?comment.news.64
He is the guy that is responsible for many of those gosu Korean Pro-gamer interviews and articles that trickle down to us after a merciful translation by our Korean gamer friends. You will see these interviews or articles work their way here at Wgtour.com, or gosugamers.net, and more often recently, at Teamliquid.net that has more Korean speaking members. The fact remains many of these reports and interviews come from Fighterforum and they trickle down to us.
Korea has three mayor e-sport portals. One is www.pgr21.com, another is the Starcraft gallery inside www.dcinside.com, another is KeSPA itself. The fourth player in this group, the rising star, the site that has recently overcome all these in shear number of hits per day is FighterForums. Just so you get an idea of the volume they handle, it is a little less than the number of hits than the site www.battle.net gets.
My personal opinion on the matter is that Korean e-sports will lead the rest of the world when it comes to e-sports and how they are managed and handled. Korean business models will be adopted elsewhere and pro-gaming teams will not be a dying fad but rather a growing industry. The games may change but I think the E-sports industry is here to stay. I also believe that Fighterforum is a cogwheel in this machinery, so expect it to grow and develop itself into an even more awesome e-sports portal.
I hope you enjoy this rather short interview and get a glimpse into Figtherforum from the perspective of it chief editor. Please forgive any imperfections in the translations that were done by Alvista (Canada) and Casanov (Australia)who were both kind enough to give me a helping hand. Both are Korean speakers outside of Korea.
Check out the whole interview at Team oGaming, a growing gaming community and perhaps one of the most trully international starcraft clans out there of any value.
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Vatican City State593 Posts
"How many hours a day you spend working with FIFO?
=24hours. So sad story.. "
haha great
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lol i wonder why doesn't the Korean Sites have a version in English, it ain't that hard 
i mean what is this supposed to mean
"솔직히 터놓고 말해보자. 요즘 사무실에서 일하고 있는 직장인들 가운데 게임에 조금이라도 관심을 가진 사람이라면 팡야와 카트라이더에 몰두하고 있다는 것은 주지의 사실이다. " 
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I wonder why you dont learn korean, it aint that hard.
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
Below each question there is both the Korean and the English version of his answers, I left the Korean for the benefit of those who can read it in their own original language.
Some please spare us from more SainT[X] comments in this thread..
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thanks for the translation
On March 05 2005 10:19 Yuljan wrote:
I wonder why you dont learn korean, it aint that hard.
Because we spent much time learning English which is used all over the world (ok, it isnt used in Zimbabwe, France, Korea and some other minor countries  )
seariously, what kind of idiot are you? everyone can start posting in their native language and it will be cool? Are you implying you know every language there is?
btw. tl.net is a bad abbreviation, noone will find the website without the full name (for example check gosureplays temp website)
Maybe some Koreans would visit it, but they wont find it
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english is used in zimbabwe actually... just thought i'd mention it. 
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
lol ~ touche. How about being nice to each other and not falling for the language barrier phatomless pit? Fortunately for everyone the interview is in Korean and English ~
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Thanks for the interview, was a new ' type ' for me, interviewing a leader of such a big sc portal.
Hah, you wouldn't believe how many times I sit in silence then start laughing for no apparent reason when I'm actually dumbfounded/proud that my home country is the one that has made BW beyond a game.
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Physician
United States4146 Posts
hehe you should also know that the guy who coined the term "Beyond the Game" is Korean and a Teamliquid.net forum poster ~ hustler100 who actually wrote up himself that WCG motto ~
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nice interview~! 
On March 05 2005 10:48 8882 wrote:thanks for the translation Show nested quote +On March 05 2005 10:19 Yuljan wrote:
I wonder why you dont learn korean, it aint that hard. Because we spent much time learning English which is used all over the world (ok, it isnt used in Zimbabwe, France, Korea and some other minor countries ) seariously, what kind of idiot are you? everyone can start posting in their native language and it will be cool? Are you implying you know every language there is? btw. tl.net is a bad abbreviation, noone will find the website without the full name (for example check gosureplays temp website) Maybe some Koreans would visit it, but they wont find it
i think his point was that thats the thing Saint was saying, that they need an english page even if its not their native language.....you do realize that Yuljan was being sarcastic right? yuljan was trying to push the same point across to saint that you're telling to him
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On March 05 2005 11:49 Physician wrote:
hehe you should also know that the guy who coined the term "Beyond the Game" is Korean and a Teamliquid.net forum poster ~ hustler100 who actually wrote up himself that WCG motto ~
I suppose he's to thank for the song then. -_-
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China3334 Posts
IMO, interviews and news with photos make FiFo so successful and popular.
prg21 feels like more serious with those statistics and ranks. while both are great 
NICE interview, entropy. thx a lot ^^
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