Celebrating Like the World Cup and Olympics
Celebrating like the World Cup and Olympics... ‘2023 World Cup Medal’ coming out
A commemorative medal will be released with the theme of the "2023 League of Legends World Championship (hereinafter referred to as Worlds)", the world"s largest international e-sports competition held in Seoul and Busan this year.
On the 5th, the Korea Mint and Printing Corporation announced that it would produce the world"s first medal commemorating the World Cup.
‘League of Legends World Championship’ is an e-sports competition hosted by Riot Games. It has been held every year since 2011.
League of Legends was adopted as an official sport at this year"s Hangzhou Asian Games.
The Korean national team received a lot of attention by winning the gold medal and winning the championship.
The 2023 World Cup will be held in Korea for the first time in five years since 2018.
It will run from the 10th to the 19th of next month.
The Play-In Stage, which is the preliminaries, and the Swiss Stage, which is the final, will be held in Seoul, and the quarterfinals and semifinals will be held in Busan.
Afterwards, the long-awaited final will be held at Gocheok Sky Dome located in Guro-gu, Seoul.
This commemorative medal is produced in line with the status of the world"s largest e-sports competition, just as the Mint and Mint produced commemorative coins to commemorate the World Cup and Olympics, international sports competitions held in Korea.
The "2023 League of Legends World Championship Commemorative Medal" is a three-dimensional and highly artistic design with the theme of the trophy awarded to the winning team and the "WORLDS 2023" slogan "THE GRIND & THE GLORY".
Two types of gold and silver medals will be produced in limited quantities and are scheduled to be released in the middle of this month.
Prior to the launch, the Mint and Riot Games plan to present the actual commemorative medal for the first time through the League of Legends pop-up store, which will be installed at Lotte Department Store"s Avenuel World Tower branch from the 7th to the 17th in line with the opening of the 2023 World Cup.
An official from the Mint said, “It is very meaningful to release a commemorative medal for the 2023 League of Legends World Championship, which has established itself as a world-class e-sports competition.”
He added, “We will produce a commemorative medal that matches the status and reputation of the competition, and part of the sales proceeds will be donated to public interest.”
“We will increase the value of the competition by sponsoring it for the right purpose,” he said.