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
Must be shocking to find a random person speaking Korean in Jönköping :)
They were definitely shocked I could tell. I was actually a bit surprised as well as I didn't expect to hear Korean.