A Pro Korea Gamer
by Steve Gibson, May 16, 2001 12:26pm PDTSo I saw this interview linked from ShackES and figured yay another interview with some guy who plays games really well.. but then I saw the quotes and thought "WTF?" Check out what this guy who moved overseas to Korea to play professional StarCraft is saying about how things are going over there. This is translated so the english is a little rough, This is just insane:
What makes Koreans Starcraft environment great is the community behind it. Basically everyone in Korea under 40 years old knows and played Starcraft. Also, there are 6 channels on TV that broadcast games on a regular basis. That gives progamers a lot of exposure. Grrr: Im satisfied with my Starcraft career. Ive performed better than what I could have dreamed of in all of the major tournaments. Im now playing Starcraft only a few hours a week, only joining the big tournaments [...] Grrr:I sign a few autograph everyday in the streets. But I sign a lot more if I go to Pc rooms or to amusement park, where a lot of high-school students are. When I went WCGC (it was at Everland), I got surrounded by more than 50 kids are one time.StarCraft is like a national thing over there in Korea. It's just freaky how a single computer game has made such a huge impact over there. Can anyone really imagine something like that happening with a game in the US or Europe or Canada?
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Example: Wheel of Fortune, 'Pro' Wrestling
And if any of those people have computers they are playing counterstinke.
Its disgusting to me that morons rule america. Think about all the absolute shit out there that people support, buy, dont care about, ignore, laugh at, waste. You're all going to hell.
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I'm always signing mad autographs because of my expert moss arrow usage.
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Can you imagine if the US had a national game?
Like what would happen if EVERYONE in the US played CS?
Kudos to Korea
I need to buy Starcraft again, it kicked much ass
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Holy Shit!
thats kind of cool, except there are lots of other games i'd rather spectate than Starcraft.
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It's just a different culture over there.
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http://www.jmpc.com/Starcade/Show.htm
Safe to say we can now tell a whole country to GET A FUCKING LIFE!!!
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$0.02
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I seem to remember hearing about that a while ago.
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