Investigators have raided the primary offices of the Korean Esports Association over allegations of suspicious relationships with the conglomerate Lotte Group.

It’s not easy having a Korean father-in-law. Asking him to, ‘pass the tangerine,’ is soaked in difficulty. It’s hard to connect when you don’t share a language, like two gravediggers setting to work, one minus a spade.

We connect through television.

After working harder than a pre-nesting wren, he sits down in his chair with his chopsticks, Banchan and a remote control. We watch the Korean news, and it’s through this shared experience that I learned that Lotte is the fifth largest conglomerate in South Korea, with more than 90 firms selling anything and everything.