{"id":66,"date":"2009-02-05T19:44:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/?p=66"},"modified":"2009-02-05T19:44:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:44:27","slug":"starcraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/korean\/starcraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Starcraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

For all you gamers out there, this will be your favorite post!\u00a0 Today I’m going to talk about Starcraft, or sutakureputu (\uc2a4\ud0c0\ud06c\ub798\ud504\ud2b8<\/strong>), which is the way Koreans pronounce it.\u00a0 I’m a little scared writing about Starcraft. The die hard fans of Starcraft might all rush to hunt me down if I fail to be accurate about the game.\u00a0 So before I write any further, please forgive me for any discrepancies!\u00a0 I’ve never played Starcraft (gasp!) but I do know about the important legacy it has created in South Korea and abroad.\u00a0 (Which is what this post is about).<\/p>\n

For those of you who are normal<\/span>, (just kidding) and don’t know anything about Starcraft, it’s a video game played by multiple players.\u00a0 From what my friends tell me, Starcraft is a strategy game where players try to battle a different race of aliens on various levels of difficulty.\u00a0 If I understood this correctly, it means that you have to ‘think’ really hard, with the possibility that you might be killed on a virtual setting.\u00a0 This is not my idea of fun!\u00a0 My ideal computer game is where I try to line up as many gems in a row before the timer runs out.<\/p>\n

Not including myself, it seems that many people are addicted to Starcraft.\u00a0 I know of people who have failed a semester because of Starcraft.\u00a0 I’ve even heard of a man who lost his\u00a0home because he couldn’t put the game down to go to work!\u00a0 A friend described to me that the desire to “level up” or pass to the next level makes it difficult to stop playing the game.\u00a0 I’ve always considered drugs and alcohol to be something we need to be careful towards, but maybe we should be on the lookout for Starcraft as well!<\/p>\n

The positive thing about Starcraft is that it has made some people very rich.\u00a0 Of course, the creators of the game are rich, but I’m not talking about the inventors of the game.\u00a0 I’m talking about the players who have competed in Starcraft competitions and are now celebrities in South Korea.\u00a0 For example, Im Yo Hwan (\uc784\uc694\ud658<\/strong>) is a multi-millionaire.\u00a0 He gets commercial endorsements in addition to the money that he earns by winning competitions.\u00a0 On top of that, he’s barely in his twenties!\u00a0 (I’m so\u00a0kicking myself for not playing more video games when I was younger!)<\/p>\n

Here’s a video on Starcraft and what goes on in the competition.\u00a0 Hope I’m not creating any monsters here by showing this video: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=47GLuOd3QVk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For all you gamers out there, this will be your favorite post!\u00a0 Today I’m going to talk about Starcraft, or sutakureputu (\uc2a4\ud0c0\ud06c\ub798\ud504\ud2b8), which is the way Koreans pronounce it.\u00a0 I’m a little scared writing about Starcraft. The die hard fans of Starcraft might all rush to hunt me down if I fail to be accurate…<\/p>\n

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