Scars Korean real game
- June 5, 2015
- Technology Product
In a quiet room full of shiny trophies won, Lee Young-ho rolled the right sleeve of his gray sweater.
A scar, half an inch wide, which extends above the elbow and his shoulder.
"Our company has paid for the full cost of treatment, I had an operation," said his coach, Kang Kyung Doh.
"[He] is the best StarCraft player and won everything. In this area and is still going strong"
LER Mr. Lee had injured muscles, distort, making the only option to save his illustrious career surgery.
Holding his arm so I could have a good gawp, Lee held.
"He is like a badge of honor," he said.
It seemed that the confirmation I expected - the game in South Korea reached a dangerous place, where professionals and amateurs to destroy their lives and their bodies.
But Kang looks quite different. They are athletes, he argues, and cause injury.
A colleague later suggested that, if I. An interview the world champion the most decorated marathon would not be surprised if she had damaged her knees
Nor do I suggest that football players had been operated on "too far", the phrase was used to describe the arm of Mr. Lee.
He had a point.
Tap-tap-tap-tap
Professional game - e-sport - is big business in South Korea. It is a service to their development.
These players are like soccer players, their games broadcast - on television and online - in English and Korean.
The best earn hundreds of thousands of pounds per year: a mix of salary, prize money and endorsements.
Mr. Lee is a player of Starcraft for KT Rolster, one of the biggest teams in South Korea. The scar is the result of being on top of his game for 10 years.
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The day of my visit to KT Rolster Starcraft player driven hard as Mr. Lee be.
The noise of the practice produces a tap-tap-tap-tap-support almost hypnotic songs in a room, like the kind of place that you looked at his check, if you want to sit on your computer.
Every PC in your own cabin, the player with your headphones on, called the room "do not disturb".
The difference here is that these cabins sit duration. Family photos, scraps of odd snacks and brush your teeth. And then there are the gifts. Many Gifts.
Professional players are mostly men, but most of their obsessive fans are women and children provides the kind of attention usually reserved for celebrities, other exports booming entertainment of the country for the song K-Pop.
But in contrast to the madness of e-sports Gangnam Style South Korea's something you think you can, to bring the world.
"I think e-sports has [to be considered a good sport] has great potential, but perhaps not as much as the physical games," Mr. Kang said.
"E-sports is always a mind sport chess."
"They are adorable"
In the hallway - and more than a room full of bottles "sports" drink Pocari Sweat, another sponsor - I found the training room for the League of Legends team Rolster KT.
League of Legends - LoL - is perhaps the biggest titles of e-sports and teamwork and strategy group.
The team here, to go out and drink beer, joked - and joked about who has the gifts more and less.
And the formation of all the teams live together in some excavations a few steps from the Office of the training.
I was expecting a room full of equipment and other technologies. They are great players, after all. But there are - in addition to television, there was very little in the way of entertaining games.
Here his beautiful housekeeper remains strong, and does what he can to keep healthy team.
"They spend most of their time sitting with little movement," she said, to wash ", so I wanted to avoid cooking, foods high in calories, but they love the naughty foods like that."
She loves it, he said. "You are adorable."
Overnight addiction
At the upper end of the game, the players are good for healthy and happy maintained definitely - even if the grueling routine means that clearly do not like to play more. That's work.
But for non-professionals, the impact of heavy gaming is having on the health and social lives of young Koreans is an important concern for many.
After visiting KT Rolster, I went to another part of Seoul to visit what is known as a PC explosion. They are all over the Republic of Korea - cafes, basically, but with high-end PC games. Hundreds of them, in a large room, like a club dress -. With its own bar is open 24 hours a day.
There are many instances where players were killed in the PC Bangs. They are rare, but they are major world title.
South Korea has to play numerous attempts to curb the number of online game made its young. In 2011, the law office took - as the law of Cinderella known - that children be prevented under 16 to play online games 22: 30 until 06:00 clock.
The rules were subsequently amended to allow parents to make their own decisions about when the game should be limited access to the house.
The country is a world leader in the treatment of all kinds of dependence on technology, but the game is by far the most common problem. It is one that parents who raise their children literally to addiction treatment centers has been established in South Korea.
In KT Rolster coach Kang welfare of his team is responsible for, in charge - but also recognized the negativity surrounding the hardcore games.
"When people immersed in something and addicted to it, then they can cross the border.
"Our bodies are tired or in poor condition. These things do not only happen during the games. Even when people are working, some people may have a heart attack."
He paused, wanting what he. As a predictable, possibly boring to move Question
During my time with KT Rolster to see my views on her face, the game is serious or serious problem.
With the relentless keyboards tap-tap-tap in my ears, I came to the conclusion that only could appropriate: it is both.
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