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by bflesch 3726 days ago
South Korea is huge for eSports so definitely also a huge target for us. But I am not sure that you can play a role in China from outside.

The current interest in China (and our FOMO) is mainly driven by potential investors or acquirers. We've nearly finished our app with which we hope to bring eSports for-money tournaments to a whole new level.

In our type of business everyone is moving goalposts all the time, we have had interesting experiences with regulators in EU and US so I am unsure if Chinese bureaucracy can really top this.

Obviously, when structuring international business in that region Hong Kong or Singapore are prime locations, but I don't think the big vision can be implemented without having native speakers both in CN and SK.

As a German company, a lot of our "good old manufacturing" businesses have written case study over case study about expansion to China, with very mixed results. But I feel we're kind of forced into that decision right now, because growth can be explosive.