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http://starcraft.incgamers.com/blog/comments/starcraft-2-beta-for-everyone-in-korea/
Here is the original Korean article, if someone could translate it would be amazing. The website, from the looks of it, has a google translated Korean Blizzard announcement.
PC Baangs in Korea are running the StarCraft II beta, allowing thousands of Korean fans to participate without an opt-in key.
The translation seems to indicate you need to have a Korean Battle.net account to verify your real name, and/or have a PC Baang World of WarCraft account in order to log on.
So now nearly every Korean that wants to will be able to get into the beta. While they can't play from home, I'm still jealous that they get to play.
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MrHoon
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How about US PCBang? dood!
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This would mean it is likely rolling out to wider market soon.
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Good move in the Blizzard vs Kespa war. lol
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I'm not that surprised that it started from korea though, hopefully it will spread to the U.S.
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WOWWW. This is nice! Yeah, there are soo many more PC Bangs in Korea than US.
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That's the beauty of living in a country where there are sooo many PC-bangs! I think that's really awesome, allowing so many ppl to play the Beta.
I guess there will be hundreds of nerds wanting to play the game while some other dude is massing up games. ^^'
I wonder if they have some sort of limit on how long you can play, so that other ppl can also try out SC2...
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Who lives in AZ? My house just so happens to have 3 computers that have SC2 Beta Key... =p
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Hopefully this means it will start going to a wider audience in the US and Europe as well soon. Still, more people in beta the better
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we should definitely have a big AZ SC2 get together.. although I live a long drive from phx 
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To those that don't know what PC Bang is, it is a computer cafe.
Bang means room, and PC Bang translates to PC Room.
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Australia plz, would be fun to crush bads at internet cafe (also, PC Bang is such an awesome term)
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this made me feel like shit
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*still waiting for beta key*
sigh. jealous :|
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yea you really cant blame them, most other countries dont have enough or well organized pc cafes.
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probably because sc2 is much less popular in korea than in china, US, and EU.
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Say goodbye to any chance for foreigner dominance in the SC2 scene
300 apm koreans coming to rape us
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I don't suppose anyone else thinks this means the rest of the world will soon join in on the open beta, and then the beta will be over? Personally, I feel there are still some tweaking required.
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Very smart decision. If Blizzard cannot dominate SC2 in Korea top-down, they gotta get support from the masses bottom-up style. It would be sweet though to just go to any internet cafe in my country and be able to play SC2. It makes it a bit more social, which is a thing I am really missing in the beta but I guess they don't wanna test the chat capabilities of bnet...^^
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