ESPORTS SILKROAD · EST. 2021

Connecting Korean esports talent
with the global industry

ESSR — Esports SilkRoad. Korea–Europe esports bridge: community, media, and performance coaching. Industry news briefings arrive twice a day, job postings are shared with deadline alerts, and industry professionals and job seekers meet on one server. The community runs mainly in Korean, with an English news channel.

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04 · BY THE NUMBERS

ESSR in numbers

4 yrs 8 mosStarted in December 2021 as the study group 'Gaetteok & Chaltteok'
858 accountsjoined in total
31,667 messageswritten by members (bots excluded)
68 peopleconsulted or mentored (28 job-seeker consultations · 22 hired after mentoring · 18 professionals)
17 countries36 members with ties abroad — UK · China · France · USA ···

MEASURED ｜ 2026-08-17 ｜ ALL 150 DISCORD CHANNELS COUNTED

07 · WHAT WE DO

What runs every day and every week

DAILY · KO/EN

Industry briefing

News from seven international outlets including Esports Insider and GamesIndustry.biz, summarized in Korean and English twice a day on Discord. The weekly top 10 and the Halftime report magazine are archived here.

JOBS · D-7 / D-1

Job postings + deadline alerts

Esports postings from JobKorea, Saramin, GameJob and company career pages are shared on Discord, with DMs one week and one day before the postings you follow close.

6 SESSIONS · 7 SPEAKERS · EN/KR

Career talks

Online sessions with professionals from Wasserman, ESL FACEIT and others, held in English and Korean with live AI captions. We also ran offline networking seminars.

3-MINUTE TEST · FREE

Workplace communication test

Ten workplace situations show your communication style. With that style you can join a virtual company on Discord as an intern and simulate work life there. The simulation runs in Korean.

03 · JOURNEY

The road so far

13 · JOIN

Meet us here

Everything happens on Discord. Joining is free.

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