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FearX

South Korean esports organization

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ97223514 ↗
Source-derived summary

FearX (Korean: 피어엑스), formerly Liiv SANDBOX and Sandbox Gaming, is a South Korean esports organization owned by the multi-channel network Sandbox Network. It has teams competing in League of Legends, Crazyracing Kartrider, and FIFA Online.

Its League of Legends team is known as BNK FearX because of its sponsorship with BNK Financial Group and competes in the LCK, the top-level league for the game in South Korea.

League of Legends

History

Sandbox Network acquired the roster and LCK spot of Team BattleComics on 18 December 2018, shortly after the latter qualified for the league through the promotion tournament.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “FearX” as south Korean esports organization. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where FearX, South and Korean can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as south Korean esports organization. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q97223514. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018.

Critical limits

Later summaries often reconcile disputed chronology or motive more neatly than the contemporary record permits. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

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  2. Expand the search: follow FearX primary sources, FearX archive and FearX research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “FearX” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.