{"id":237,"date":"2006-10-11T00:05:08","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T05:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2006\/10\/11\/esports\/"},"modified":"2006-10-11T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T05:05:08","slug":"esports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"eSports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes it’s just freaky being Korean. There was article in the NYTimes<\/a> about Korea’s 5 million dollar video gaming industry – and how one million of the fifty million people living in Korea visit a “PC bang” (gaming room, pronounced PC bahng<\/em>) a day. I guess the biggest video game is called Starcraft. Here is a quote from a gaming star, Lim Yo-Hwan, apparently it’s hard for him to go out in public because fans pursue him and non-stop post pics of him in real time:<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard because I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t maintain my relationships with friends,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he added. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153In terms of dating, the relationships just don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t work out. So personally there are losses, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t regret it because it was my choice to become a pro gamer.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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