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Ok so, with that dumb title out of the way let me explain what happened today.
I work in a Hakwon, teaching english 1:1 mostly to businessmen who want an excuse to get off work for an hour, I think it's the most awesome job ever because generally I would never have a chance to meet these kind of people normally, often we have a set curriculum of things we should talk about, but often the conversation will drift into : Golf, Soju, Foreigners, Korea etc... A typical line is 'Wait?!? You're a foreigner and you like spicy food?!?!?!? what the hell, impossible!'
So, I'm a pretty likeable guy, most of these businessmen leave my class saying that it was awesome and that they will book me again in the future (starting to sound a little dirty), I always find some way to connect with these guys and usually my classes just end up being really fun and interesting.
Today, one of my students came into class, I looked at his folder and I noticed it said he liked Computer games (He is like 35 working at Lotte duty free store as a shift supervisor, so a pretty high up dude). So I thought I'd have a little fun and shifted the conversatino subtlely to starcraft ('SO HOW ABOUT THOSE ZERGS HUH? YEH YOU KNOW'), to my delight, he was like 'yeh, I play starcraft in the pc bang with my friends, we have little leaguges), I told him that I loved playing the game, and long story short I now have a Bo5 scheduled with one of the shift supervisors for one of the largest stores in Seoul. with the loser having to pay for Soju in an after game party we have planned.
Seriously, this job is just amazing like that sometimes. After work today I have just been drinking heavily for a couple of hours and now I'm going to go to the PC bang and play a couple hours of SC with my buddy, so the spelling in this blog is probably not awesome!
Interestingly enough though, we talked about the pro scene for the last 10 minutes or so. we talked about Boxer, and he said he was his favourite player, and I said Jaedong was mine, but OOC I asked him who his favourite player was, and he said Ma Jae Yoon, so I asked him why it was and he said 'Becuase he destroys everyone' (I swear to god this is how he said it), I just thought that was an awesome sentance, he was talking about Ma jae yoon's golden days, and how he was gonna return. Pretty awesome stuff.
As a final note, this is gonna be a ZvT Bo5 between a completely drunk businessmen and instructor, so expect a fantastic replay pack!!11
I'm almost certain more awesome things happened today to me related to starcraft but I cannot remember what they are, I will update as neccessary!!!
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Calgary26003 Posts
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wow, 35. Is he married? Because if he isn't, I'm gonna have to seriously reconsider my time spent with starcraft.
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On October 24 2008 23:36 Aerox wrote:
wow, 35. Is he married? Because if he isn't, I'm gonna have to seriously reconsider my time spent with starcraft.
Why would you have to be married because your 35?
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So TL people don't make fun of you, ofc
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Next up: Bo5 over a girl.
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On October 24 2008 23:54 Salv wrote:
So TL people don't make fun of you, ofc
Lies can help with that though...
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That's so cool man. Korea rocks.
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a shift supervisor is considered high up?
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what a surprise, starcraft is popular in korea. Who would of thought?
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On October 25 2008 01:29 Mastermind wrote:
what a surprise, starcraft is popular in korea. Who would of thought?
Wait, thats a joke I think? Right? Correct me if im wrong
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Haha, my Korean friends always ask "do you like spicy food?" Even though I've eaten spicy Korean food in front of them so many times. They always warn me "oh watch out, very spicy!" And "oh wow, you're eating spicy food! so spicy..."
I think they don't realize that hot things exist outside of Korea. I need to take them to a Mexican restaurant sometime.
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On October 25 2008 01:36 Zoler wrote:Show nested quote +On October 25 2008 01:29 Mastermind wrote:
what a surprise, starcraft is popular in korea. Who would of thought? Wait, thats a joke I think? Right? Correct me if im wrong
Is that a joke?
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On October 25 2008 01:36 Zoler wrote:Show nested quote +On October 25 2008 01:29 Mastermind wrote:
what a surprise, starcraft is popular in korea. Who would of thought? Wait, thats a joke I think? Right? Correct me if im wrong
time to relocate yourself to someplace farther south.
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On October 25 2008 01:25 decafchicken wrote:
a shift supervisor is considered high up?
Ahh I forget the term he used, like.
they import goods from overseas and he is the guy who controls the import team.
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On October 24 2008 23:32 29 fps wrote:
wow. korea is so awesome
Me want.
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oh mann! we gotta hit up OSL finals k?
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United States17042 Posts
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On October 25 2008 01:47 Juicyfruit wrote:Show nested quote +On October 25 2008 01:36 Zoler wrote:On October 25 2008 01:29 Mastermind wrote:
what a surprise, starcraft is popular in korea. Who would of thought? Wait, thats a joke I think? Right? Correct me if im wrong Is that a joke?
Is that a joke?
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God that's awesome.
I wear starcraft shirts around everywhere and I still never meet people that play. 
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On October 25 2008 04:38 Zoler wrote:Show nested quote +On October 25 2008 01:47 Juicyfruit wrote:On October 25 2008 01:36 Zoler wrote:On October 25 2008 01:29 Mastermind wrote:
what a surprise, starcraft is popular in korea. Who would of thought? Wait, thats a joke I think? Right? Correct me if im wrong Is that a joke? Is that a joke?
C-C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!
I swear, Korea just keeps on getting cooler
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Sweet gl h5! i love lotte world!
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is awesome32280 Posts
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I think that it's very common for adults to be playing or at least know about SC in Korea at least.
During my summer, I was eating dinner with my uncle (just me him, and my cousin right)? Then while eating, we are watching TV.
Our uncle is skipping around the channels and he while skipping around he comes to MBCGame. That day was I believe July 28 or 29, the day when ForGG vs Jaedong durign the MSL finals and he wouldn't skip cuz he wanted to see the finals! I was like wtf?! And he told me he used to be a SC player and enjoys watching it on TV. I was SO surprised because he's 40 now and he enjoys watching these kind of shows. I totally wish my dad was like that -_-
And there's my other uncle who is like 33ish and he plays SC actively, not that good though, but yeah haha 
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