Funny thing just happened (including L5)

I'll start of by saying I don't play nor follow this game but I do follow some other e-sports and thought you guys might like this story.

To make a long story short I used to live in Korea a while back and so I speak some Korean. These days I live in Jönköping Sweden (the city where Dreamhack is held).

So what happened is I was in a store waiting in line to pay for my stuff when things were moving slow, suddenly I hear a language a recognize... It's Korean! So appearantly they were trying to buy some beer but they didn't have their passport with them and their Korean ID cards wouldn't suffice and so they weren't allowed to buy the beer but they were buying some snacks too so they wanted those anyway.

Now for those unfamiliar with how things work in Korea: In Korea you almost always give your card to the cashier who swipes it before you write a simple signature on an electronic pad while in Sweden you put the card into a chip reader before you enter your PIN code.

The L5 players not having the best English made explaining this to them very difficult for the cashier. However, luckily I could (with my not very good Korean) managed to explain the process for them. They then proceeded to forget some things in the store so I had to run after them and give it to them but things ended well in the end.

Initially I though they were students from Korea as their is an international university in Jönköping but after some talking I learned that they were progamers and that they ended up in 3rd place so a little searching later I found out it was L5.

Just a little story but I thought some of you might enjoy it.

Edit: Should have written "involving" not "including" in the title

Posted Jun 19, 2017, 8:40 PM UTC

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OugaaAutoSelect•

Must be shocking to find a random person speaking Korean in Jönköping :)

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FocusiOP•

They were definitely shocked I could tell. I was actually a bit surprised as well as I didn't expect to hear Korean.

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AwesomeVolknerRoll20•

A Korean programming team also called L5?

Oh, progamers. I put in an extra m the first time.

That's a pretty cool story, tho! Never know who you might run into.

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Lawfulneptune•

bro I did the same thing just looking at it for a minute than I read your comment and it all makes sense now haha

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vault_guyFnatic•

Same here xD

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FocusiOP•

I had to re-read my text there to see if I made a mistake before I realized what you meant.

You got me good there for a second

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readit_3•

Aw, L5 drinking away their defeat

FeelsBadMan

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duddy88•

2real4me

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SlimpWarriorMain tank•

Lucky :D I'm glad you've helped them out!

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FocusiOP•

I'm glad I could help them. i met sooo many kind strangers who helped me out when I was struggling with things while living in Korea

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tentatekker•

Maybe they were buying supplies for a Noblesse and Nachojin farewell party...

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pbrook12L5•

😥 RIP

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adv23•

"Ah these danish people are so nice!"

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DonPhelippe•

Lal, did they actually say something like that or is that you joking?

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pbrook12L5•

Was it the whole squad?

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FocusiOP•

Yeah it was like 7 people so I guess it was people not included in the team as well

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Andy_finlaysonAutoSelect•

They dodged a bullet. You can't buy alcohol over 3% from the supermarket here. The bigger brands often make an especially weak (and usually poor) version to sell in supermarkets as well as the regular version to sell in systembolaget (government owned booze shops that sell the good stuff).

Its a genuine challenge to get drunk from that stuff. Systembolaget closes at 3pm on a Saturday afternoon. If you forget to buy the evenings booze before then, well your only choice is to get the beer flavored stuff from the supermarket.

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FocusiOP•

The beer they sell in Korea is usually around 4.2-4.8% so it wouldn't have been too much of a difference but I agree

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ProfessorSparkFnatic•

Poor Koreans stumbling around disoriented after that whooping from EU.

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pbrook12L5•

Whooping?

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TotallyNotMeDudes•

A beat down. ex - Mayweather is going to lay a whooping down on McGregor

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Zman1719Heroes•

I believe you mean to say whopping. Whooping is the sound you make when you have whooping cough.

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TotallyNotMeDudes•

Nah.

Potato potato

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