Like HUGE RESPECT. Its incredibly hard to do that ingame
There are quite a few of Korean playing for Japanese team. They are not literally "blind" with Japanese itself sometimes. The cost is, the Korean players need to learn Japanese, at least the basic. If you watch ranked games in Tokyo server, you will understand a bit how the communication goes (it's mostly between 3 regions: Japan, Korea, and China).
its simple
orgs will sign proven players first
proven players come from amateur VCT scene
amateur VCT scene is full of korean japanese mix teams because koreans who play apac server usually play in tokyo or hongkong, and they get along
lots of proven korean FAs that come from T1 KR teams JP teams used to scrim
lots of KR players apply to japan team tryouts
in the case of NTH, the manager has korean connections thats why they always have KRs in their roster
Actually its the main problem in a lot of teams in jp. The most successful JP team is zeta which don't have any language barrier(because all players from JP), and other teams should think about to fix communication problem if they want to grow faster and higher and have better results. Its either learn 1 language or have only jp players imo
Comms are very important in that game
OMG this is actually insane a couple days ago i watched meteor's stream and i asked him does he speak japanese and he said i can understand a little bit then i asked him then do u guys comm in english? and he said no japanese and i was like did he not understand me or something and moved on
lmao and now i understand that it was actually a weird way to comm