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2022 Balloon Donation Rankings for SC streamers in South Korea
This is a ranking of the real earnings of Korean StarCraft players, which shows why there are still so many Koreans in the game.
This statistics do not include the vast majority of female SC streamers.
all info from：poong.today
Statistics on January 28, 2023
Exchange rate： 1 balloon = 100 KRW ；1 USD = 1,230 KRW ；1 CNY = 181 KRW
（TOP25）
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/53OQU0t.png)
（26-49）
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/Z09UFX8.png)
（Some others）
![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/F1BtHTS.png)
Notes:
1 Thanks for jinjin5000's contribution，We need more information from inside Korea.
https://tl.net/forum/brood-war/604596-2022-balloon-donation-rankings-for-bw-streamers
2 BJ type and balloon currency exchange policy description:
https://namu.wiki/w/별풍선
3 soO is the StarcraftII Korean highest balloon income player 2022,But nothing compares to StarCraft I,So many StarCraft II players retired and returned to StarCraft I in Korea.
4 Korean female StarCraft BJs not included on this list generally earn as much or more than their male counterparts,That's why you can see a lot of female StarCraft BJs in Korea.
Rome was not built in a day
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That's insane. Even Clam got 400 000 $! I'm happy for them. Happy that they can still make such a good living playing Starcraft.
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Interesting.
Question: does this only count star balloons from Afreeca? I think some of them get direct donation via youtube and other platforms. For example Brain is almost bottom of the table but I believe he has a huge audience from youtube, bigger than many of the top pros.
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Wow didn't know Shuttle was THAT popular and he's only one with Calm on top5 who play SC and qualify for ASL. Strange seeing Larva so down but he has two big youtube channels so maybe he's making a lot more.
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On March 08 2023 22:02 TMNT wrote:
Interesting.
Question: does this only count star balloons from Afreeca? I think some of them get direct donation via youtube and other platforms. For example Brain is almost bottom of the table but I believe he has a huge audience from youtube, bigger than many of the top pros.
Yes ,only count star balloons from Afreeca
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Kind of surprised to see Light so low on the list. But that... is a lot of money...
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So gaming doesnt matter, just be entertaining.
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Basically zero motivation to win a tournament. Kind of wondering what they're doing with the kind of money, although KR seems like an expensive place to live and gamers are notoriously bad with money.
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Fastest BJs are more focused on youtube streaming and get a lot of superchats from there that dwarfs their afreeca baloons. Brain, burgersasu for example. memberships too.
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well, average salary in Seoul is about 40k$ per year, so 50 starcrafters earn that or better... what can i say, i think being top50 on earth in BroodWar is pretty damn hard. And to be top5 is almost insane. The skill and practice time is incredible.
I know that some of those that earn above 40k$ are not really top50 but they are close enough.
Also Snow who i consider top1-3 right now is at about average in that list
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On March 09 2023 02:01 RJBTV wrote:Brain superchats. Can't see his membership rates. ![[image loading]](https://i.imgur.com/OtWWwoq.png)
Lmao no wonder why dude played one ASL season and never returned. He'd have made the Protoss line-up not as pathetic as it currently is.
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Netherlands5204 Posts
I'm surprised ToSsGirL doesn't have more symps. Perhaps she's passed the age to appeal that group.
I mean she is easy on the eyes, friendly and is the top player amongst chicks. Maybe not very entertaining regardless.
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On March 09 2023 02:15 TMNT wrote:Show nested quote +On March 09 2023 02:01 RJBTV wrote:Brain superchats. Can't see his membership rates. Lmao no wonder why dude played one ASL season and never returned. He'd have made the Protoss line-up not as pathetic as it currently is.
good for him, shame for BW..
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For the guys who make a ton of money but aren’t close to the top tier of players anymore, what are their streams like? Are they more a variety streamer so a bunch of games and lifestyle type stuff?
It’s fascinating what the average joe spends their money on.
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United Kingdom12024 Posts
It's insane how much money streamers make man. I don't hate them for it but seeing someone who makes more in 1 year than it'd take me in 30 years is really fucking depressing. That's just looking at Britney, look at someone like Mr Beast and he probably makes more than Britney makes a year in a week. Capitalism is so fucking broken man.
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Without capitalism everyone would be sitting on their asses doing nothing. It incentivize creativity and innovation.
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Keep in mind that this is South Korea where a common above-average salary is 110K/yr.
It's a high-income country. Probably the highest where BW actually has/had a following. I actually think that's one of the reasons the game is not dead yet.
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