Here is a NYTimes article written by Seth Shiesel that highlights the rise if the video gaming star in South Korean Culture.
Some excerpts:
"The finals of top StarCraft tournaments are held in stadiums, with tens of thousands of fans in attendance."
“'I watch basketball sometimes, but StarCraft is more fun. It’s more thrilling, more exciting.'”
" '... In America they have lots of fields and grass and outdoor space. They have lots of room to play soccer and baseball and other sports. We don’t have that here. Here, there are very few places for young people to go and very little for them to do, so they found PC games, and it’s their way to spend time together and relax.'"
"IT’S all part of a dynamic that has taken technologies first developed in the West — personal computers, the Internet, online games like StarCraft — and melded them into a culture as different from the United States as Korean pajeon are from American pancakes. "
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