Youngsuk "FreedoM" Chang (born April 26, 1988) is a professional player of two real-time strategy

Real-time strategy

Real-time strategy is a sub-genre of strategy video game which does not progress incrementally in turns. Brett Sperry is credited with coining the term to market Dune II....

 games, StarCraft

StarCraft

StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The first game of the StarCraft series was released for Microsoft Windows on 31 March 1998. With more than 11 million copies sold worldwide as of February 2009, it is one of the best-selling...

 and WarCraft

Warcraft

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans is a real-time strategy game , developed by Blizzard Entertainment and published by Blizzard and Interplay Entertainment. The MS-DOS version was released in November 1994 and the Macintosh version in late 1996. Sales were fairly high, reviewers were mostly impressed, and the...

. He is known by his pseudonym FreedoM.
Chang entered the E-sports world in 2004 where he started his career playing as the Night Elf race in the game Warcraft III.

Chang represented his country South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

 in Warcraft at the World Cyber Games

World Cyber Games

The World Cyber Games is an international competitive video-gaming event operated by South Korean company World Cyber Games Inc., and sponsored by Samsung and Microsoft...

 2004, winning the 2004 national Korean qualifier. In 2005, he once again placed first on the World E-sports Festival. Surprisingly enough, he suddenly changed his career from Warcraft to Starcraft in 2006. Since then, his team Samsung

Samsung

The Samsung Group is a South Korean multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul, South Korea...

 Khan, won the championship for Starcraft pro-league 2006-2007 season.

Currently he is one of the most successful Korean poker players. He has won 4th place at the 2008 APT Manila where he took over $38,000 in prize money.

Accomplishments

• 2003 MBC Sonokong Prime League III - 3rd place
• 2004 World Cyber Games
  World Cyber Games
  The World Cyber Games is an international competitive video-gaming event operated by South Korean company World Cyber Games Inc., and sponsored by Samsung and Microsoft...
  
   Korea national qualifier - 1st Place
• 2005 MBC Land Cinema Prime League V - 3rd place
• 2005 World E-Sports Festival - 1st Place
• 2005 Ongamenet Invitational - 1st place
• 2007 Shinhan ProLeague - 1st place
• 2008 APPT Manila 2008 4th Place ($38,000)