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Sorry if this is in wrong forum, I couldn't decide on general/broodwar.
Well anyways, like it says, I'm headed to Korea. Seems like big news when a one of us liquidians goes eh? Thing is I'm alot younger than alot of people here, only 15 T_T.
I'm korean so it'll be more personal experience for me, last time I went was in '98 or so. I've been 5 times before so it's not completely new.
Anyway, what I wanted to ask was [ to the people that have been there recently ] what's it like? I don't really know what to expect. I have little ideas of what I WANT to expect like Starcraft still being a big explosion over there. But I know that era has passed, and people play Lineage 2 and Diablo. I asked a few friends who went last summer and they said in each PC Baang only about 3-5 people play Starcraft now. To this I said oh well, I'll watch it on T.V. [ Btw, anyone know the channels? Lolz. ]
Is there alot of merchandise? I'll be sure to buy a box of that infamous Boxer cereal if I see it.
Just wondering what it's like so I won't be disappointed >=\
Oh yeah, I'm leaving Monday [ Eastern U.S. ] at like 5:00 AM
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I looked into going, I'd like to visit as well. Then I looked at the cost of flights. 5,000 canadian round trip  It would be far more economically feasible for me to go there and attempt to live before giving up and offing myself
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WHY IS EVERYBODY GOING TO KOREA EXCEPT ME!!!
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Sweden33723 Posts
On May 29 2004 07:58 Abyss_Bahamut wrote:
Sorry if this is in wrong forum, I couldn't decide on general/broodwar.
Well anyways, like it says, I'm headed to Korea. Seems like big news when a one of us liquidians goes eh? Thing is I'm alot younger than alot of people here, only 15 T_T.
I'm korean so it'll be more personal experience for me, last time I went was in '98 or so. I've been 5 times before so it's not completely new.
Anyway, what I wanted to ask was [ to the people that have been there recently ] what's it like? I don't really know what to expect. I have little ideas of what I WANT to expect like Starcraft still being a big explosion over there. But I know that era has passed, and people play Lineage 2 and Diablo. I asked a few friends who went last summer and they said in each PC Baang only about 3-5 people play Starcraft now. To this I said oh well, I'll watch it on T.V. [ Btw, anyone know the channels? Lolz. ]
Is there alot of merchandise? I'll be sure to buy a box of that infamous Boxer cereal if I see it.
Just wondering what it's like so I won't be disappointed >=\
Oh yeah, I'm leaving Monday [ Eastern U.S. ] at like 5:00 AM
Urm :O I think that would depend on the PC Bang -_-? Last time I asked a friend of mine about that he said '70% starcraft' o_O Was a kinda big pc bang, I think 200 comps -_-~
I'll ask a friend of mine who's a pc bang owner though +_+~
EDIT: He said Lineage II, Lineage and Starcraft are the most popular games in his pc bang O.o
He said that people play lineage a lot but they also play starcraft ("Lineage = Meal, Starcraft = snack").
ZiBek says:
right
ZiBek says:
mostly korean people
ZiBek says:
play ST
ZiBek says:
but... not only ST
ZiBek says:
Someone only play ST
ZiBek says:
but... a little
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Yeah, I'll be staying in Seoul, I think. So most likely a big PC Baang.
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StarCraft is stil huge in South Korea. Ratings for TV games are still increasing.
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I'm going this Summer, how much is 5,000 Canadian? My flight costs roughly 1000 USD, don't know if that's equivalent or not.
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On May 29 2004 13:35 x[ReaPeR]x wrote:
StarCraft is stil huge in South Korea. Ratings for TV games are still increasing.
If this is true, it's the best thing I've heard all week. =^ O^=
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On May 29 2004 13:46 PanoRaMa wrote:
I'm going this Summer, how much is 5,000 Canadian? My flight costs roughly 1000 USD, don't know if that's equivalent or not.
1000USD i think is like um 1350CAN the guy didnt really look up prices hes talking out of his ass =/
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ottawa to seoul
Total Fare:
$4060.95
Thats 600 less than when I checked last atleast
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MURICA15980 Posts
It's big enough in Korea that I don't think you'll be sorely disappointed. Umm... The channels are: Ongamenet, MBCGame, iTV, GameTV(?). If you are close to the city and not in a suburb, then take the subway to the Coex mall and go to the pc bang there on Friday nights to watch the OSL. That's what I did as much as I could when I was in Seoul in 2001 or '02 (I don't feel like couting my summers ago).
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That's awesome Klogon I'll try to watch all of them, even though I had a little doubt about the Coex mall thing if you say you went 2 years ago. Anyway, thanks for all the replies people.
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On May 29 2004 13:35 x[ReaPeR]x wrote:
StarCraft is stil huge in South Korea. Ratings for TV games are still increasing.
Ratings are increasing, but the interst and number of people playing it is decreasing
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Sweden33723 Posts
On May 29 2004 14:30 Abyss_Bahamut wrote:
That's awesome Klogon I'll try to watch all of them, even though I had a little doubt about the Coex mall thing if you say you went 2 years ago. Anyway, thanks for all the replies people.
Uh, coex mall is still the venue for OGN games 
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Sweden33723 Posts
On May 29 2004 14:57 benzoic-acid wrote: Show nested quote +On May 29 2004 13:35 x[ReaPeR]x wrote:
StarCraft is stil huge in South Korea. Ratings for TV games are still increasing. Ratings are increasing, but the interst and number of people playing it is decreasing
Source gogo :o
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The thing u can do is go to the coex mall(take the subway, line 2: samsung) and go to the mega studio(right next to the movie complex) and catch some ongamenet games live, or go to the sejoong game world and watch mbcgame games live. currently, i don't see many starcraft items u can really get in korea other than the boxer dvd, or some ogn shirts(but i don't know if they still have them) the pc bangs or the pc rooms i've recently been to didn't have people playing starcraft, but lots of cs and lineage2.
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MURICA15980 Posts
Go get an autograph from Boxer or something
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MURICA15980 Posts
Yeah, on the back of your bw cd!
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Cool have a good trip!
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In Korea do they worship fat people? (Much like Progamers)
I know they do in Japan.
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