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For all Korean players who compete in the League of Legends arena, military service is a hurdle that they do not want to face, and the shortest one-and-a-half years of service will basically consume the last peak of a professional player's career, so for Korean players, serving is basically equivalent to retirement.
The most classic example is DK's veteran Khan, as the S11 runner-up on the order, the sword is not old Until the retirement of Khan still represents the first-class level of LCK on the single, but the reason for military service can only hold the regret of the entire career without the S crown in advance, and after his retirement, DK has not been able to find the right level of the single. Many professional players are fighting to postpone or even exempt from military service, although the Korean League of Legends players have not won the Asian Games championship in the past, but with other conditions for exemption from military service, such as injury, some people have successfully been exempted from military service, but from the latest revelations of Jingong, this road is not feasible.
When Jin Gong opened the live broadcast, he took the initiative to break the news with netizens that "the system of exempting South Korea from military service for injuries is gone." Kim Gong first said that he must go to class tomorrow from 10:00 to 16:30, and only classes can postpone service, and then he revealed that the version of the military service policy has changed: "Now the system of military service has changed, as long as the adult male in South Korea has to perform military service regardless of whether he is injured or not, the only way to exempt him from military service is to win an Olympic medal or an Asian Games gold medal." This also means that at present, e-sports players can only be exempted from military service if they win the Asian Games championship, and other methods of exemption from military service cannot be used.
However, no Korean esports player has ever won the Asian Games championship in history, and according to the latest version of the military service system, even the league of legends triple crowns such as Faker and the first in history have to abide by the rules to serve. At the same time, because the system of exemption from military service due to injury is gone, it is difficult for a player with serious hand injuries like Theshy to escape military service. The only chance left for this group of South Korean esports players is this year's Asian Games in Hangzhou, after all, they can't wait for the next Asian Games four years later. It is foreseeable that the Korean team will pay great attention to this year's Asian Games, so who do you think is more likely to win the League of Legends project at this year's Asian Games?