‘IEF 2022 International e-Sports Festival’ to be held in Jeonju from 2nd to 4th

[전주=뉴스핌] Reporter Hong Jae-hee = Jeonju City, Jeonbuk Province announced on the 1st that the ‘IEF 2022 International e-Sports Festival’ will be held at Jinsudang, Chonbuk National University for three days from the 2nd to the 4th.

This festival is hosted and supervised by the International Exchange Federation, and sponsored by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the Cultural Contents Agency, Jeollabuk-do, and Jeonju-si.

The ‘IEF International e-Sports Festival’, which celebrated its 18th anniversary, is Korea’s representative amateur international e-sports event, which began in 2005 to expand cultural exchange between Korean and Chinese youths and is held alternately between Korea and China.

This year’s event will be held as an on-site event where players and spectators can gather in Jeonju for the first time in three years and enjoy it to their heart’s content.

151 youth amateur teams from 10 countries selected through preliminary rounds will participate.

The three official games, League of Legends (LoL), HEARTHSTONE, and FIFA ONLINE4, and the domestic game Eternal Return as a demonstration event will be held to determine the strongest amateurs.

In the case of the three official events, as they are games adopted as official events of the ‘2022 Hangzhou Asian Games’ to be held in September next year, it is expected that more exciting matches will unfold than ever with fierce competition and challenges from e-sports prospects representing each country. .

In addition, during this event, more than 100 people, including game industry-related university professors, researchers, and businessmen, attended and discussed in-depth discussions on economic cooperation plans for the development of the digital content industry and on-site inspection and cooperation plans for e-sports between Korea and China. An industry forum is also held.

In addition, as this year’s event is an on-site event held for the first time in three years, various events and experience booths are operated for e-sports fans and family visitors.

Representatively, in the connected experience zone in the venue, a realistic experience space for the whole family to enjoy, such as a virtual reality (VR) experience zone, is prepared, and visitors can see and enjoy various events such as the ‘Eternal Return’ game experience to promote domestic games. You can participate and enjoy yourself.

Seo Bae-won, Director of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said, “I am very pleased that the e-sports competition, which is the representative cultural content of the MZ generation and the center of the digital culture industry, will be held in Jeonju City, where various cultures, both tangible and intangible, traditional and modern, live and breathe.”

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