South Korean esports organisation DRX has revealed that the nation’s Ministry of Training Award has been given to the DRX Esports Academy.
In keeping with the social media publish, it marks the primary time an esports workforce has obtained the award. The award was sealed on December thirty first, 2025, and signed by South Korea’s Minister of Training, Cho Kyo-jin.
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In a tough translation, DRX said: “DRX Esports Academy has been awarded the Minister of Training Award in recognition of its achievements in community-linked profession expertise programmes.
“Shifting ahead, DRX will proceed to contribute to fostering a wholesome instructional ecosystem past esports and create sustained social worth.”
DRX Esports Academy is a part of the organisation’s coaching programme, creating aspiring skilled gamers for a profession within the esports scene. As of writing, the academy presently fields lively groups in aggressive titles corresponding to VALORANT and League of Legends.
In 2025, its VALORANT workforce competed within the VALORANT Challengers collection in Korea, putting as excessive as fourth in Stage 3. Then again, the League of Legends workforce competed within the LCK AS Academy League final yr, although it was the primary workforce to be eradicated in each splits.
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2025 was a busy yr for DRX within the esports ecosystem, with the organisation reaching success in VALORANT and falling quick in League of Legends.
DRX’s VALORANT roster started the 2025 season by profitable the VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT) Pacific Kickoff. Because of its excessive placements in VCT Stage 1 and a pair of, DRX certified for VALORANT Champions 2025, the place it positioned third total. The retirement of DRX participant Cho ‘Flashback‘ Min-hyuk additionally occurred, following the conclusion of the 2025 VCT OFF//SEASON.
The organisation noticed extra disappointing ends in the League of Legends scene, putting ninth total within the LCK 2025 season and lacking out on each the Asia Invitational and Worlds 2025. It’s a far cry from its 2022 run, which noticed the organisation beat T1 3-2 within the Grand Finals of 2022 Worlds.
In 2026, the organisation revamped its LCK roster, changing Bae ‘Sponge’ Younger-jun and Park ‘Teddy’ Jin-seong with ung ‘Jiwoo’ Ji-woo and Ha ‘Vincenzo’ Seung-min.
Elsewhere, DRX’s Tekken participant Yoon ‘LowHigh’ Solar-woong received the Tekken World Tour 2025 Finals, profitable the $100,00 (~£79,000) prize after defeating Virtus.professional’s Park ‘Mangja’ Geon-ho within the Grand Finals.
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