KSV eSports and Mirae Asset team up to help esports athletes

Esports organisation KSV eSports has revealed that they have partnered with Asian financial service firm Mirae Asset Venture Investment to provide all athletes under KSV's umbrella - including KSV eSports, formerly known as Samsung Galaxy - with financial management services, as well as other amenities.

The teams receiving these services - such as those playing in Overwatch (Seoul Dynasty in the Overwatch League), League of Legends, and Heroes of the Storm - will receive benefits such as literacy and monetary education, financial planning, tax preparation services, physical training, nutrition services, and more, meaning that this is a big leap towards maintaining professionalism in esports.

"Our players are professional athletes and deserve nothing less than the best quality support and treatment," said Kevin Chou, CEO and co-founder of KSV eSports. "KSV is proud to lead the initiative for esports organisations to provide its athletes with important financial planning services to further develop responsible and respected professionals competing at the highest level."

"The esports industry is rapidly expanding, as are player salaries," said Justin Kim, General Manager, Mirae Asset Venture Investment. "We commend KSV for ensuring its players with varying degrees of life experience have access to quality financial management services to feel financially safe, comfortable, and empowered. This furthers KSV's leadership vision of guiding esports to the global championship stage."

Considering the types of amenities that the top players in traditional sports receive, this is a pretty significant step in ensuring a lot of the same services are provided for the best esports players around, and is something that we may see more organisations provide in the future. Do you think we will see more of this?