SK Telecom T1 In 2012, SKT T1 named kkOma as a coach for their League of Legends team in preparation for the upcoming 2013 Season 3. kkOma recruited players
Faker,
Bengi,
Piglet,
Impact, and
PoohManDu to form the original SKT T1 team. kkOma and his team had won the
Champions Summer 2013 and the
2013 World Championship. Following a relatively disappointing Season 4, SKT T1 bounced back in 2015 Season 5. In 2015, kkOma was among the first coach to successfully implement two players equally sharing the same role, by having
Faker and
Easyhoon share the mid lane position. This allowed SKT T1 to adopt diverse play styles depending on which player was swapped in. kkOma would lead his team to sweep the calendar year by winning
LCK Spring 2015,
LCK Summer 2015, and the
2015 World Championship, becoming the first coach to win more than one
World Championships. Kkoma became the head coach of T1 in November 2017. kkOma successfully led his team to the seventh LCK title on 13 April 2019, marking his first LCK title as the head coach. On 27 November 2019, it was announced that kkOma would leave SKT T1.
Vici Gaming On 17 December 2019,
Vici Gaming announced that kkOma joined the team as their head coach. He parted ways with Vici Gaming in September 2020 due to family reasons.
DWG KIA In November 2020, kkOma was being reported as the new head coach of
DWG KIA (formerly Damwon Gaming) after the departure of their coaches, Yang “Daeny” Dae-in and Kim “Zefa” Jae-min. During the 2021 season, kkOma and his team were runners up in the
2021 Mid-Season Invitational, and the
2021 League of Legends World Championship. In December 2021, kkOma was promoted to the role of athletic director within the DWG KIA organization.
Return to T1 On 21 November, 2023, T1 announced kkOma's return to the organization as the head coach. == National team career ==