According to the South Korean Star News, South Korean Fist CEO Park Jun-kyu died of liver cancer at Samsung Hospital in Seoul on January 8, local time.
On January 2, 2019, South Korean Fist Games announced that they officially updated their CEO to Park Jun-kyu. With S8 results suffering from "worst in history" and the LCK League stagnating in the past two years, Park Jun-kyu can be said to be on the verge of taking office, with opportunities and challenges. But what all Korean players did not expect is that Park Jun-kyu, which is committed to maintaining the sustainable development of League of Legends, has unfortunately passed away in order to provide players with better game services and strengthen the construction of e-sports as the focus of 2019.
Park Jun-kyu was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2019. Although Park Joon Kyu spent most of last year battling liver cancer, he didn't officially leave work due to health problems until the end of 2019, "since he was diagnosed with liver cancer in 2019, he continued to work until his death."
Park Jun-kyu, who joined KPMG in 2014 as a business consultant, joined CJ Group in 2011 to lead the global business team, joined Riot's strategy department in 2014, and became CEO of Riot Games Korea in 2019.