What makes Korean’s 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: I’m satisfied with my Starcraft career. I’ve performed better than what I could have dreamed of in all of the major tournaments. I’m 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?