On February 26, 2020, SK Telecom was notified of a suspected case on the 14th floor of Building T – SK Telecom’s headquarters in Eulji-ro, Jung-gu, Seoul. All SK Telecom’s employees at Euji were immediately evacuated. This is the first time this headquarters is closed since the day it was officially established. Along with that, a text message was also sent to everyone working at home to inform the situation.
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According to News1.kr, this morning, the headquarters of SK Telecom Group, located in Euljiro, Jung-gu, Seoul, found a positive case for a dangerous disease virus. This employee was confirmed positive after the medical examination and was isolated for treatment.
Immediately after receiving the test results, the entire building where this employee worked was notified of closure and blockade within 3 days (from 26 to 28) for disinfection.
It is known that T1’s new Gaming House in Seoul has not been completed yet, so the whole team is still living and practicing at the old Gaming House from the SKT era, located in Ilsan, GyeongGi Province, 40km from the center of Seoul.
According to information from the Korean press, the employee was confirmed positive for the virus working on the 14th floor of the building, while the T1’s Staff team has an office on the 28th floor.
However, with the high possibility of spreading, the risk of spreading diseases to T1 employees is entirely possible.
Besides, the staff at Seoul headquarters also frequented the current T1 Gaming House for business reasons. Especially at the time of big events such as debut anniversary or player’s birthday, gifts from fans will be transferred from Seoul to GyeongGi.
This has raised concerns about the path of the disease transmission to the T1 players, currently, the fans of the LCK are still very confused worried about the latest developments of the epidemic.
It is known that since its inception, the SKT League of Legends team has been operating at Gaming House in GyeongGi Province – 40km from Seoul. However, they still had a team of Staff working at the building that was found infected, and the team also frequented the players’ Gaming House.
However, immediately after this information was shared publicly, Joe Marsh – T1’s CEO spoke up confirming information about the status of T1 personnel:
That’s the SKT Corporate office. Our staff and players do not work out of that location. Everyone doing well – making sure we are extra careful.
Thus, according to information from the CEO of T1, the team of the team is no longer active at SKT headquarters. Perhaps after changing the name from SKT to T1, the team structure of the team was also renewed, and the team leaders decided to move their workplace to the new headquarters.
After Joe Masrh confirmed, the first response from the League of Legends fan community was a sigh of relief, and they also shared and encouraged the staff of the infected SKT headquarters, At the same time, do not forget to remind the T1 players to be careful and try to protect their health.
On the afternoon of February 26, T1 will have their next match of Week 4 of the LCK Spring 2020. The current LCK tournament still plays without spectators, and after the women’s case MC Kim Min-ah (suspected of being infected by the disease with high fever, but tested negative), Korean Riot Games also decided to close the media room, and some major Korean Esports news sites also announced that they will stop working on the scene.
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