From esports partnerships to on-site operations,
Marketing & Operations Specialist.
I started out at an LCK pro team and have been building brand partnerships and fan experiences ever since.
I turn what the field tells me into the next plan, then take that plan back to the field and finish it there.
Sociology at UCLA. I began my career at bbq OLIVERS, an LCK pro team, running fan engagement and brand partnerships across a season of 217 matches. At the 2023 LCK Summer Final I planned the events for a finals venue that drew more than 22,000 visitors over three days, and across the season I planned and ran 30 brand marketing events on site myself.
In games and esports, online is the venue. Reading data and the room together, I built experiences that brought players back — and built the reverse flow too, where what happened on site spread back online. In an era where the community is the product, I want to make good experiences for players without drawing a line between online and offline.
On the U.S. West Coast I handled store operations consulting and global brand activations, sharpening an execution structure that lands projects inside schedule and budget. Reaching agreement with counterparts who do not share my language — and carrying the project to completion anyway — has been my job, and that is how I have worked.
Product & Community Strategy
Analyzed real usage flows of TCG players across Pokémon and One Piece, and proposed improvements to onboarding, game selection and tournament discovery.


Three-day cumulative visitors — the largest event where I handled finals-venue fan engagement and brand booth operations
Match-day fan engagement and partnership campaigns — I scoped the budget and composition, pitched them, and executed on site after approval
Supported team on-site operations across 60+ LCK regular-season series — a full-season workload run from the front office
Brands and institutions I worked with during my tenure — I prepared sponsor proposals, negotiated delivery terms, and ran on-site operations
Each step widened the scope of the next.
Supported on-site operations across four LCK regular-season splits, 60+ series by team count. Planned and published team social content, drafted partnership proposals and event operation manuals, and documented communication and collaboration procedures with domestic and overseas partners.
Team-based mission execution and responsible command experience became the foundation for the follow-through and accountability I brought to later partnership and operations work.
Across a season of 217 matches, planned and ran 30 brand events tied to LCK matches. Owned the Faker 10th debut anniversary fan activation end to end, from budget estimation through on-site delivery, and led event planning for the 2023 Summer Final, which drew over 22,000 cumulative visitors across three days. Over the same period, ran the Incheon Onslayers × Incheon Metropolitan City public collaboration — the city’s hometown VALORANT team — as a separate track.
B.A. in Sociology. Won the UCLA KUBS Startup Competition in June 2025.
Logistics, vendor management and local PR execution for 6 West Coast locations (3 new · 3 transferred) plus global activations including MUFC, K-Expo and the NBA.
BBQ × T1 · Fan Experience & Brand Activation
An on-site LCK fan activation marking Faker's 10th debut anniversary, pairing BBQ products with the player's IP. I scoped the bundle's budget and composition myself, pitched it to the sponsor and got it approved, then owned the whole process through on-site delivery.
Player Milestone → Social Announcement → On-site Experience → Fan Sharing → Organic Buzz
Estimated the giveaway bundle's budget and designed its product composition to pitch — executed after approval.
Sized a 300-set chicken giveaway program and designed the redemption coupon.
Coordinated the route and distribution process for neutral- and T1-section fans redeeming coupons at the LoL PARK cheer booth, including live issue response.
Designed the path from the player's social announcement to on-site redemption — a loop that brought fan write-ups back into the community.


Not a giveaway, but an on-site activation that tied a player's milestone, the fan experience and a brand product into one moment — and produced organic spread from it.
I turned market and fan data into promotions partners could actually run, then connected the venue back so it generated data again. Across a season of 217 matches I planned and ran 30 linked events myself.
I costed the giveaway sets and designed the product mix, pitched it and — once approved — owned everything from exchange-coupon design to on-site delivery for a 300-set fan giveaway. An unprompted fan write-up drew 30,000+ views in the community and carried into press coverage with no paid media.
Analyzed market and fan data to define where partner goals and our operations met.
Converted it into a program partners could run as-is via proposals and exposure design. Verified character IP usage rights, then drafted banner artwork and managed printing and installation.
Aligned schedules, terms and roles in Korean and English. Tracked per-event budgets and coordinated production timelines with vendors.
Handled content production, on-site setup, quality control and fan turnout directly.
Reviewed KPIs and reported results, leaving a basis for the next campaign's decisions.
bbq OLIVERS · Team Operations & Partnerships
At bbq OLIVERS, an LCK pro team, I supported on-site operations across four regular-season splits in 2017–2018 — 60+ series on a team basis.
Team operations support at LCK regular-season matches — 2017 Spring/Summer, 2018 Spring/Summer.
Planned and executed content for the team's social channels.
Owned communication with domestic and overseas partners and documented collaboration processes. Wrote partnership proposals and event operations manuals.
I learned the league's operating cycle first, from inside a team front office, and then widened my scope into brand partnerships.
Fan Community Strategy · Community Strategy & Concept Development
A fan community strategy designed from the insight I gained running BBQ's LCK sponsorship brand marketing.
LCK content → community entry → participation → reward → brand action → return
Framed the problem that fan attention does not survive past match day, and designed a Fan Journey structure following the flow above.
Designed a structure converting online participation into store visits and purchases, using match-day content such as score predictions and MVP votes plus a mission system (Watch → Participate → Share → Visit → Purchase).
Instead of sign-up counts, designed a five-axis KPI framework — Acquisition, Engagement, Retention, Conversion, Efficiency — to measure participation quality and conversion.
Grounded in hands-on work — purchase-linked promotions, events built on team content, and participatory social campaigns.
Not simply operations support, but connecting each stakeholder's action items to bring the project in on schedule and on budget.
MUFC, K-Expo and NBA player events — connected operational logistics, vendor relationships and local PR execution to the schedule.
Aligned workflows across operations, marketing, stores and vendors in writing to hold schedule and budget, organizing decisions stage by stage.
Systematized operations manuals and project documents to close information gaps between teams — so whoever came next could pick them up and move.







Incheon Onslayers (Incheon-based VALORANT team) × Incheon Metropolitan City · includes tournament operations · a track separate from the LCK work
A public collaboration between Incheon Onslayers, the city's hometown VALORANT team, and Incheon Metropolitan City. Putting a city government's goals and participating players' paths inside one plan, so public budget turns into real participation. This was a track run separately from the LCK brand marketing.
Handled planning, scheduling, KPI review and performance reporting on the public partnership between Incheon Onslayers and Incheon Metropolitan City.
Ran the Incheon tournament booth and the Presidential Esports Cup Incheon team on site — managing participant flow and venue quality.
Designed and ran a fan program with a participation target of 16,800, together with a five-person team.



Proposal → negotiation → exposure → venue → reporting: how I turn a partnership into a single execution flow.
Analyze market and fan data to define where partner goals meet our operations.
Convert it into a program the partner can run as-is, through proposals and exposure design.
Coordinate schedule, terms and roles — aligning internal and external sides bilingually in Korean and English.
Handle content production, venue setup, quality control and fan turnout directly.
KPI review and performance reporting — leaving a basis for the next campaign's decisions.
Brands and institutions I worked with during my tenure.
Not finished at the plan,
but completed on site.
Available for roles in Korea & the U.S. — Marketing · Partnerships · Operations