Former Starcraft pro names his child Marine

Lim Yo-hwan, left, and Marine from Blizzard's StarCraft / Korea Times file

Kim Ga-yeon

Famous StarCraft player Lim Yo-hwan announced he will name his child Marine after the infantry unit in the game’s Terran species.

In an interview with a local news outlet Wednesday, the 36-year-old eSport legend said he couldn’t think of other names aside from the popular unit from the real-time strategic computer video game. His wife, actress Kim Ga-yeon, 44, agreed to the name, he added.

Lim confirmed his wife is six-weeks pregnant.

Kim mentioned on her Facebook page on the same day her deceased father gave her a gift, referring to the baby.

“I am worried because of my old age but I’m grateful for everyone’s care,” Kim said. She said in the post that Lim, now director of Korea-based online social casino games and mobile RPG developer ME2ON, played a part in launching a poker commission.

Lim debuted in 1999 as an eSport player and won many StarCraft championships until 2006. He was in the cast of tvN’s entertainment TV show, “The Genius: Rule Breaker” in 2014.

Lim and Kim filed for marriage status in 2011 without holding a wedding ceremony.