When you type his name into Google, Lim Yo-Hwan produces over 127,000 results, including many pictures. He is one of the most famous and regarded as one of the best professional Starcraft competitors of all time.
His earnings from gaming tournaments are within the six-figure range (US dollars) each year, and also earns almost $100,000US from endorsements each year.
Yo-Hwan is nicknamed in the Starcraft fraternity as ‘the legendary Boxer and even has his own international fan site. On this website are shown multiple South Korean news articles which have been written about him and numerous interviews. According to his website, as of 2006, Yo-Hwan had a fan club of just under 600,000 people, which was second in Korea only to boy band H.O.T. He also is the first programmer to command an annual salary of over $200,000US.
Considered an ‘e-sports’ superstar, his salary is of equal value to that of a top end AFL or NRL star. It shows how DCT’s are playing a larger and larger role in todays society, not only for communication and business (although commanding a salary such as the one above through gaming could be considered one a business) but also for leisure and free time.
http://boxerforever.com/
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