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My Korea Trip + Gom Foreigner House

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Spades
Profile Joined September 2010
United States249 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-11 05:10:18
March 15 2011 09:53 GMT
#1
Well i promised a bunch of people i would talk a little about my trip and post up some pictures. It's a work in progress, I'll probably add more things to OP in the coming days, but figured i would share some pictures and a little background. I had an amazing time, and i recommend everyone try it if given the chance. I definitely improved tremendously, as well as made some amazing friends who I will definitely stay in contact with now that im back home.

Oh and shoutout to LiquidHuk for helping me get a korean account

Feel free to ask questions about korea/players/whatever else you want to know and ill try to answer questions.

People living in the house(at some point in time):
Spades - American Terran from VTGaming
Laneir - SC2 Manager from VTGaming
mOOnGLaDe - Australian Zerg from FXO
BoSs - Manager of FXO
Torch - American Terran from VTGaming and Startale
Gisado - Gom Caster, pretty much everyones hero

Later on some others moved in:
cArn - French Terran, Knife Fighter
Teddy aka ProfessorOak - American Zerg
KellyMilkies - Code A Caster from Singapore
Doa - Code A Caster from USA

John or some of the other gom casters would stop by time to time or stay the night when games ran late.

Unfortunately the GOM house never got PC's so we spent most of our time in PC Bangs, and Moonglade and I were able to visit pro team house. We both did very well, finishing with winning ratios(no cleaning dishes for us). Each day we did better, the coaches and players really helped a lot.

The koreans arent really that far ahead of top foreigners, but they are definitely a lot more structured and dedicated so I'm not sure how long things will remain somewhat even. The korean ladder is much more difficult than NA/EU servers.

We all pretty much became best friends, and went out everywhere together. We frequently made trips to Hongdae to go clubbing. If you ever get out to seoul, check out Cocoon and Papa Gorilla, pretty amazing club/bars. Ho Bar you get 50$ bottles to pregame then go nuts. Nightlife in Korea is amazing. It's extremely cheap, and it never stops. If you go home before 6am you are wasting the night. Karaoke in korea is pretty awesome too, you get you're own private room, unlimited ice cream and it costs like 3$ per person.

Artosis and Tasteless are both awesome guys, and helped us out so much when we first arrived. Tasteless knows how to party. If you want to have a good time in korea, just find out what hes doing and tag along.




Bunch of pictures and random stuff:

Flight!
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Our plane, waiting to board
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Plane was pretty much empty, so we got whole rows to ourselves to sleep in
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First sighting of Korea!
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Seoul


Gom House and Roommates

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Laneir, Doa and Teddy
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Our Kitchen
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Our "gaming stations", No computers still to this day
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Bunkbeds, a child's dream
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Spades and Carn looking awesome
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Teddy being Teddy
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Laneir posting up
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Teddy, Doa, cArn
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Mon Frere cArn, male model
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Teddy
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Doa doing his thing
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A rare Torch sighting
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Gisado in his private casting studio
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mOOnGLaDe and IMMVP

GSL Studio/Finals

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Outside the stadium
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Finals stage
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Crowd
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More stage/crowd
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Casting Studio

Random/Out around Seoul

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Carn at E-Nature PC
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Teddy laddering
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IMMVP rides the subway too
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Teddy on the train
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Carn on the train


Will add more soon!
Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42394 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-15 09:57:45
March 15 2011 09:57 GMT
#2
MVP so handsome with that jacket!

Thanks for the pictures! Hope you had a good trip.
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
wooozy
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
3813 Posts
March 15 2011 10:01 GMT
#3
MVP so flyyyyyyyyyyy
Bill Murray
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States9292 Posts
March 15 2011 10:05 GMT
#4
papa gorilla... sounds like jinro
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Sheekthief
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States267 Posts
March 15 2011 10:07 GMT
#5
Pretty slick stuff bro. Seems like a lot of fun! Thanks for posting!
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shire
Profile Joined August 2010
United States405 Posts
March 15 2011 10:07 GMT
#6
On March 15 2011 19:05 Bill Murray wrote:
papa gorilla... sounds like jinro



probably named after jinro too. and only alcohol they server is... JINRO!
Rawrsi
Profile Joined October 2010
Australia55 Posts
March 15 2011 10:11 GMT
#7
Love how Moonglade is just rocking his team shirt. While IMMVP is wearing a hoody and a jacket and a scarf.
Clicker
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1012 Posts
March 15 2011 10:57 GMT
#8
Awesome post and pics!
Did anyone harass MVP (by harass I mean swoon over) on the train?
FloWoIF
Profile Joined May 2010
Australia20 Posts
March 15 2011 11:02 GMT
#9
Thanks for the photos NEVER thought the GSL had a massive seating arrangement like that
Pros give enemies handicaps.
Escapist
Profile Joined July 2010
Portugal548 Posts
March 15 2011 11:06 GMT
#10
Awesome photos, loved IMMVP riding the subway and miss Gisado since his stream isnt as easy to catch as it was before.

Thank you for the info and hope to see more photos later on
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sjh
Profile Joined April 2010
Canada136 Posts
March 15 2011 11:06 GMT
#11
Nice post, thanks
Ceterum ceseo Protatem esse delendam
desRow
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada2654 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-15 14:25:00
March 15 2011 11:10 GMT
#12
Why the hell are u so freaking handsome spades JEEZ !!!!
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GameCreds
Profile Joined January 2011
France1079 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-15 11:16:53
March 15 2011 11:14 GMT
#13
Awesome

More of this plz! So cool to see what's going on in the Foreigner house :D
And btw, for those who want, cArn is streaming his games live all day (from 02:00 am to 18:30pm CET) long 7/7 here

- Spades, he's still a roomate of yours there, right?
Connecting Gamers
Tommylew
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Wales2717 Posts
March 15 2011 11:31 GMT
#14
so how much did u learn that you will take to training when back in America?

Must have such a better understanding of practice too now!!!
Live and Let Die!
busbarn
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden984 Posts
March 15 2011 11:41 GMT
#15
sucks to hear that you haven't recieved any computers yet, cool to see you all get along well though
BasementCat
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada155 Posts
March 15 2011 11:47 GMT
#16
I didn't know that casters get to say in the gom house!!! :O

I want to go there!
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KobraKay
Profile Joined March 2010
Portugal4280 Posts
March 15 2011 12:00 GMT
#17
Some nice picks. Cool to see you all getting along.

GJ, more plz ^^
CJ Fighting! (--.--)
Rylaji
Profile Joined January 2011
Sweden580 Posts
March 15 2011 12:03 GMT
#18
Are you going back?
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Profile Joined March 2011
Benin60 Posts
March 15 2011 12:04 GMT
#19
thanks spades! epic photos/write up. Especially loved the bit about the nightlife because i want to travel to korea and that sounds epic!
지지
SpaceJam
Profile Joined August 2010
United States116 Posts
March 15 2011 12:26 GMT
#20
On March 15 2011 19:11 Rawrsi wrote:
Love how Moonglade is just rocking his team shirt. While IMMVP is wearing a hoody and a jacket and a scarf.


haha I know. you don't think he's happy to be on a progaming team in Korea do you?
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