iloveoov has been dominating the Korean leagues for a long time, but now he has finally gotten to prove himself in a global event. He says that he is very happy to be winning WCG the first time he qualifies for it. WCG was the only missing event in his list of merits and this makes his win very special to him.

Before the match against JulyZerg, he thought of his family and friends, just like in any other match. He also prayed that he could show what he'd prepared for this match.
- I always focus on the match, and think through the map and my strategy before it starts, he says. He seemed very prepared in the matches against JulyZerg, and just as when he plays matches in Korea, he had been practicing twelve hours a day.

iloveoov also says that his key to success is that he excels at knowing what his opponents are doing. Without scouting, there is simply no winning. In the first game of the finals, JulyZerg did exceptionally well at killing oov's SCVs, even though oov made several attemps to lure off the zerglings, who were making sure he would not get a sight of the zerg base.

Only time is the limit?


12 hours a day for practice is another key for the progamer.
- But there are hundreds of StarCraft top gamers and all of them practice a lot. I don't know if I can win next year's preliminaries, he told GosuGamers.
The next two years, he will certainly keep playing. After that, however, he will have to prepare to go the same path as Boxer did. Since only very recently, the air force allows the progamers to practice during service, but oov does not seem to believe this time will be enough to keep playing. He wants to, though, just like he reckons Boxer will be back in the scene after the service is completed.
- StarCraft will continue to be popular for a long time. But somewhere we will see a turning point. In Korea we have the game channels but I believe the game has to be popular internationally and other StarCraft game channels should be started, oov explains.

Speaking of internationally, GosuGamers asked iloveoov about what he thought of the Polish player Draco. He thinks that Draco is very much superior in the Protoss versus Terran matchup. As a matter of fact, iloveoov says that he is just like the Protoss players in Korea. Despite this, iloveoov mentions that he was very embarrassed losing to him.
- He made a lot of unexpected movements and actions, iloveoov says of Draco, though the second game ended in about 15 minutes, which is kind of standard.

Oov feels sorry that his team mate Boxer is 'taking a break' (he mentioned specifically that it was not about a retirement) because the Monster Terran wanted to keep playing in the same team as him.

With his annual salary of $160,000 and the status of progamer, oov was extraordinarily friendly and made sure that all questions in the interview could be answered. It was his translator, Michelle, who was the one who complained about all the questions - but a progamer is a progamer. We had to ask him about the games, too.

JulyZerg, using lurkers, caught him off guard in the beginning of the first game; "Many lurker. I was.. wooh, GG", oov explains in English and shows what he looked like when the lurkers came. He makes a shield in front of him while he explains to us about his attempts to defend himself.

He also mentions that he knew how good JulyZerg is with mutalisks and because of this there were turrets everywhere in his base. It obviously worked. With his first World Cyber Games medal, he wins a nice sum of $25,000.

Our interview has ended and it is time to go grab a meal. And then, assuming he follows his schedule, it's back to gaming again.
"If you want to become a progamer, you must practice more than twelve hours a day and only break for eating."


JulyZerg and iloveoov being interviewed after the final match