How much of NRG speaks Korean?

T RexHasTinyArms·Nov 17, 2015·1 votes·3,169 views

I know GBM and Impact obviously do as former KR pros, and I think Konkwon does bc his family of origin is from KR. I know Pobelter who Altec played w/ speaks KR because of his family of origin, but for some reason I feel like I heard something about Altec being able to speak Korean as well when that roster was being talked about. Does anyone know if that's true, or if Moon speaks any Korean? Even if only Alec does this might be the most a team has been comfortable communicating in the native language of their imported star players, so there's the potential the line up may work better than how some team moves have turned out. However, jungle is a big role in terms of team communication (especially early on) and I wonder if Moon is the only player who doesn't speak the primary language of his solo lanes how much that will hurt synergy?

Either way I'm looking forward to the line up and hope it works out (I like impact and altec as players so I hope they have a good run w/ the new team).

5 Comments

xSleepyNov 17, 20151 votes

so idk about moon, but i just googled a bit and went back and found this old interview with pobelter when they were on winterfox http://2015.na.lolesports.com/articles/ask-pros-winterfoxs-pobelter it seems to indicate that altec is not fluent in korean, despite those with whom he has played being fluent i imagine that impact, gbm and konkwon will interact in korean, and konkwon (and maybe impact, depending on how much english he's picked up since he moved here) will help translate if gbm says anything very important to the other two

T RexHasTinyArmsNov 17, 20151 votes

:( Okay, guess it is gonna be more similar to other imports than I'd hoped. Impact seems like his english has become much stronger though so maybe they'll just communicate primarily in english.

xSleepyNov 17, 20151 votes

yeah for all we know gbm speaks english already, i know some of the koreans are multilingual. like on worlds where easyhoon just told the interpreter to shut up, and answered himself in english. beautiful

TurquoiseYoshiNov 17, 20151 votes

Watch some Mic Check from some of the International matches. You'd be shocked by how much English the Korean teams speak.

ploki122Nov 18, 20151 votes

Impact is fluent in Korean, and has a very functional English.
GBM is fluent in Korean, and has a very functional English.
KonKwon is fluent in Korean, and is fluent in English.
Altec knows minimal Korean, and is fluent in English.
Moon has a functional Korean, and is fluent in English.

The only one I'm unsure is Moon's Korean.