Director Kang Won-ki, who oversees the development of MapleStory, caught the attention of fans by proceeding with the reading content of ‘Namoo Wiki’ while eating chicken through a guerrilla live broadcast.
After a brief introduction, Director Kang searched for his name ‘Kang Won-gi’ in the Namoo Wiki search. When I searched, I could see a list of past MapleStory directors, from the 1st director Seung-chan Lee to the 7th director Won-ki Kang.
As he read his information, he said, “The profile picture is from the Destiny Showcase, but I don’t like it very much.” Then, I was able to check in real time the strange phenomenon that the profile picture was changed and the Chinese name was added.
Below is the history of joining Nexon’s MapleStory team in 2006, taking office as a director, and continuing to the present. After reading the contents, he recalled his memories of that time, such as June 2016, when he held his first meeting, and July 2018, when he gave a global Maple Story interview and lecture in Seattle, USA, and shared an unknown behind-the-scenes story with fans.
When asked about his appearance only abroad at the time, Director Kang said, “I should have shown more of my appearance in Korea now that I think about it, but personally I regret it.” .
In the meantime, Director Kang’s chicken ASMR, which he heard, made even the reporters want to eat chicken. In fact, the ‘whole chicken’ he ate rose to the top of the real-time search terms for Yogiyo, surprising fans.
In the past, it explained the situation in which Mureungdori, Kumdori, and synthetic reorganization, which were representative contents that non-capitalists secured funds, were deleted on the grounds that they destroyed the game economy environment. He said, “It was a patch that got a lot of swearing. It was a situation where communication was not smooth, so I regret the part I did without explaining it accurately, but I do not regret the implementation itself because it is a work that needs to be clear even if I go back.”
After that, I also read the reviews that were introduced in a lot of volume. After taking office as the director of game content, balance, story, etc., he saw the positive and negative parts, and he acknowledged most of the content and said, “As the most important thing is to make it interesting without neglecting it for as long as possible, we plan to continue working in the future.” said
In particular, he passed both positive and complex evaluations, and many fans were moved to see him carefully considering the negative evaluations. Among them, regarding the explicit billing induction, “I do not remember that a large number of existing cash items were discontinued,” he said. It would be good if it was moved to ,” he said, causing laughter.
As he read the excessive event format rehash page, he posed the question to his fans, “Is it really a rehash when the Haste event is being held regularly?” Most of the fans said that they thought it was an annual event rather than a rehearsal. Director Kang replied, “I also think that it is not a fun event to think of as a rehearsal. Rather than a predictable event, I will prepare an event that can give pleasure as a surprise.”
This broadcast is significant in that it is a surprise broadcast that is one step closer to the fans following the last cake mukbang. Seeing Director Kang eating chicken, fans said, “I’ll have to eat it too”, “I ordered chicken”, “I really enjoy eating it”, “I like this communication show so much”, “I even refill it because I can’t eat one? It’s so attractive” He poured out requests and satisfaction for future broadcasts.
In response, Director Kang said, “I think it will be fun to broadcast jointly with influencers. If the opportunity arises, I will do it”, “Gameplay broadcasting is the content I really want to do”, “I will definitely promote MapleStory’s ideal World Cup”, “Chuseok” The event is in progress in a new form” and “The roadmap is scheduled to be released at the end of August, so please look forward to it”, raising expectations by sharing various plans with fans.
– General Director Kang Won-ki, who came to see users because they wanted to see Ver.2
Wonbin Moon, Reporter at Hankyung.com Game Talk