OGN is a South Korean cable television channel that specializes in broadcasting video game-related content and esports matches, particularly StarCraft, Starcraft 2, League of Legends. OnGameNet runs high level professional tournaments such as the Ongamenet Starleague (OSL), Proleague, and League of Legends Champions Korea. It was previously a subsidiary of On-Media, the parent company of several other cable channels. After a corporate merger in 2010, it is now owned by CJ E&M.
Lim Yo-hwan, known by the ID SlayerS_`BoxeR`, is a former professional player of the real-time strategy computer game StarCraft. He is often referred to as The Terran Emperor, or simply "The Emperor", and is widely considered to be one of the most successful players of the genre as well as an esports icon. In late 2010, he retired from StarCraft: Brood War and founded the StarCraft II team SlayerS. Since the disbanding of SlayerS, he briefly returned to SK Telecom T1 as a coach before retiring due to health related issues. He is currently a professional poker player.
Choi Yeon-sung, also known as iloveoov, is a retired professional Korean StarCraft player, and a current coach of the Afreeca Freecs League of Legends team. As a Terran player he was known for his excellent macromanagement, leading to his nickname "Cheater Terran". However he is better known as "Monster Terran" because of his ability to produce a massive number of units. He sees Lim Yo-Hwan, who was on the same team as him, as an older brother or mentor. Lim scouted Choi through a match in battlenet after losing to Choi's Terran, Zerg and Protoss. Choi beat Lim 3:2 in 2004 during the Ongamenet Ever Starleague finals.
The Starleague, or the Ongamenet Starleague (OSL), was a professional South Korean StarCraft individual league run by Ongamenet. It first ran StarCraft: Brood War competitions but transitioned to StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty after that game's release. The Starleague was broadcast on Korean cable television. The league folded after the 2012 season.
Park Jung-suk, also known as Reach or [Oops]Reach is a professional South Korean StarCraft player.
The real time strategy (RTS) computer game StarCraft had an active professional competition circuit, particularly in South Korea. The two major game channels in South Korea, Ongamenet and MBCGame, each ran a Starleague, viewed by millions of fans.
Bertrand Grospellier, also known as ElkY, is a French poker player and former StarCraft: Brood War and Warcraft III eSports player. He has won a World Poker Tour (WPT), a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and a European Poker Tour (EPT) title, giving him the Triple Crown. He is a partypoker Pro and he currently resides in Prague, Czech Republic. ElkY is ranked #77 on the Global Poker Index. In November 2015 ElkY returned to the eSports scene by joining Team Liquid as a Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft player.
Lee Yun-yeol, better known as NaDa, is a South Korean professional gamer who competitively played StarCraft II and before that, StarCraft: Brood War. He is known for being one of the most accomplished Brood War players of all time with a total of six major title victories, including three KPGA tours in a row in 2002 and subsequently winning three OnGameNet StarLeagues over the following years, earning him the nickname, "Genius Terran". He achieved the highest KeSPA score of any player before it was re-scaled, and holds the record for longest stay in KeSPA's top 30 at 87 months, beginning in March 2002 and ending in May 2009. He has played for several top-ranking teams, including Pantech EX, Toona S.G., KT_MagicNs, Ideal Space and WeMade FOX. After his transition to StarCraft II in 2010, he joined the Korean team of Old Generations. In February 2012, he joined the American multi-gaming team, compLexity gaming.
Chun Jung-hee (Hangul: 천정희 is a retired South Korean professional player of the real-time strategy game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. He used to play for the Chinese professional gaming team Beijing eSport Team. He goes by the gamertag of Sweet and is a member of clan WeRRa.
Ma Jae-yoon, known by the pseudonym sAviOr, and dubbed The Maestro, is a former professional South Korean e-sports gamer of the real-time strategy game StarCraft. He played the Zerg race and was one of the most successful and popular players of all time. Savior was one of several players implicated in the 2010 match fixing scandal, and as a result he was banned from KeSPA-run competition for life. After retiring as a pro-gamer, sAviOr began streaming on AfreecaTV, but AfreecaTV made the decision to ban several players implicated in match-fixing offenses from the platform, including sAviOr. Ma Jae-yoon was a member of CJ Entus, a professional StarCraft: Brood War e-sports team sponsored by CJ CGV, an entertainment subsidiary of the CJ Corporation.
Lee Jae-dong, who plays simply under the name Jaedong, is a South Korean professional StarCraft: Brood War player and former StarCraft II player, playing most recently for team Evil Geniuses prior to his StarCraft II retirement. After retiring from StarCraft II, Jaedong returned to playing SC:BW. Announced as a full-time streamer on 12 November 2016, he made his return tournaments scene a week later during the 2016 KT GiGA Legends Match lll. Using the Zerg race in both games, Lee is considered one of the most successful StarCraft players of all time, having won five OnGameNet Starleague (OSL) and MBCGame StarCraft League (MSL) tournaments, and earning over $600,000 in tournament prize money. His other nicknames include The Tyrant and The Legend Killer.
Somyung "Silver" Sim, known by the pseudonym s.s.m~[SiLvEr] is one of the most successful player of the real-time strategy computer game StarCraft. Also known to be a poker player, he has made the final table of the APPT Macau 2008.
Chang "FreedoM" Youngsuk is a professional esports player of the real-time strategy games StarCraft and WarCraft III. He is known by his pseudonym FreedoM or FreeDoM. Chang entered the E-sports world in 2004 where he started his career playing as the Night Elf race in the game WarCraft III.
Lee Young-ho is a South Korean StarCraft: Brood War and StarCraft II player who played Terran for the Korean pro-gaming team KT Rolster under the alias By.FlaSh or simply Flash. He made his debut as a StarCraft: Brood War player in 2007 and retired on December 19, 2015. Lee began playing StarCraft II competitively in 2011, until his retirement in December 2015. He subsequently returned to playing Starcraft: Brood War, and started his personal broadcast in February 2016 on the AfreecaTV personal broadcasting platform. Since returning to Brood War, Lee has won first place in Seasons 2, 3, and 4 of the Afreeca Starleague. As of 2018, he is still broadcasting personal broadcasts.
Jung Myung-hoon, known as By.Fantasy or Fantasy, is a South Korean retired StarCraft player. He is one of 3 Terrans to be under the wing of Choi "iloveoov" Yeon-sung. Jung is known as a Terran innovator in professional StarCraft, taking one gold and three silver medals in the OnGameNet Starleague. Jung is also known for his 3-0 performance in the biggest competition in professional Korean StarCraft, the 2008-2009 Shinhan Bank Proleague Finals, in which he defeated his Zerg rival Lee Jae-dong twice to carry his team, SK Telecom T1, to the championship. Since then his performances in Proleague and individual leagues have proved him one of the best Terran players in the game. In the final OnGameNet Starleague for Starcraft: Brood War, the 2012 Tving OSL, Fantasy took 2nd place losing to JangBi in the finals.
Kim Dong-soo, or Garimto, is a South Korean former professional StarCraft player. He now commentates and is in charge of marketing in South Korea for the clothing brand Undefeated.
Park Yong-wook is a former South Korean professional StarCraft player who played under the alias Kingdom. He has since retired to become a commentator.
Song Byung-gu is a South Korean professional StarCraft Protoss player from Pohang who plays under the alias Stork[gm] or simply Stork. He plays StarCraft II for team Samsung Khan.
Seo Ji-hun also known as his tag XellOs[yG] or simplified XellOs, is a professional South Korean StarCraft player of the Terran race. Ji-hun won the 2003 Ongamenet Starleague and the World Cyber Games 2004 grand final.
Jeon Sang-wook is a professional StarCraft player from South Korea who plays Terran under the alias midas[gm].
