Opening of Permanent eSports Stadium in Daejeon... Third in Korea
Providing the Optimal Environment for eSports Match Hosting and Viewing
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Daejeon Metropolitan City, and the Korea Creative Content Agency opened a permanent e-sports stadium on the 15th at the North Building of the Advanced Science Museum in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon. This is the third permanent e-sports stadium to be operated in South Korea. A total of 10 billion KRW was invested, including 3 billion KRW from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and 7 billion KRW from Daejeon City, to establish a main stadium with 500 seats, a secondary stadium with 50 seats, and auxiliary facilities. The total floor area is 4,595.7㎡. In 2019, the Ministry selected Busan, Gwangju, and Daejeon as target locations for stadium construction. This year, Jinju City was additionally selected to review plans for stadium development.
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The Daejeon e-sports permanent stadium provides an optimal environment for conducting and viewing e-sports competitions. As a regional hub e-sports stadium, it will host amateur and disabled e-sports tournaments as well as various citizen participation experience activities. It is expected to invigorate the local economy by discovering and nurturing young local talent in gaming, one of the future growth engines, and creating local jobs. Oh Young-woo, the first vice minister of the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, stated, "E-sports is a leisure culture that is growing globally, having been selected as an official event at next year's Hangzhou Asian Games. We will strengthen regional e-sports infrastructure to continuously support the development of related industries."
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