Why does South Korea love starcraft

[MrPercie]

I don't understand what is with there big obsession, Not just star craft but Internet and gaming as well just there are loads that just love it.

My brother knew a SK kid at school and he had played CoD4 for like 100 hours when it was first released, he wasent great at it but he just played it so damn much.

Im just wondering if its a genetic thing or if SK had few technology and games at the time and starcraft was one of the first games south korea got so many would have played it.

Does anyone of a good idea or is it one of those questions that never got an answer

[Viri]

Korea loves StarCraft because Korea is Korea, and StarCraft is StarCraft.

[kRaZyAzN]

I can't be sure, but Starcraft is just a great game all around. Takes a lot of skill, and quick thinking to be good at. Koreans are just quick thinkers.

[Crink]

At 5/29/10 05:19 PM, MrPercie wrote:
Im just wondering if its a genetic thing

Fo real?

[MrPercie]

At 5/29/10 06:00 PM, Crink wrote:

At 5/29/10 05:19 PM, MrPercie wrote:
Im just wondering if its a genetic thing

Fo real?

well they have been invaded by china and japan for the past years and it seems strange that they differ a lot from neighboring countries (ok sure you got crazy WoW players in china but you get them in America as well, china just has a larger population so there are just more of them)

[Supermatx1]

First off, it's a tough question to answer.

I'll use a weird way to answer that question.Starcraft by itself has a weird design of creatures while also
having a nice futuristic touch.

Let's see a bit of these country called 'South Korea', for what we know it's a really high-tech country with some chinese culture in it.

If this equation leads us to starcraft somehow, I'll go around screaming in my underpants.

[ZJ]

The same reason that America loves baseball. We just thought it was a nifty game and we liked to play it. Same with them and Starcraft. There's no real explanation for it.

[Saren]

They are preparing for great space war with NK.

[MrPercie]

At 5/29/10 09:49 PM, puddinN64 wrote: The same reason that America loves baseball. We just thought it was a nifty game and we liked to play it.

Well I can understand sport, you get a lot of football (British/American) fans but what makes SK strange is that I heard they place bets on Star craft matches. Sure you can place bets on anything but they do it with a video game is kinda of strange because usual sports involve the co-ordination, Tactics and physique of the player(s) Rather than the mind and skill of the brain and hands.

[Jolly]

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They're asian, they like to use there brain a lot more than we do.

[Maverick-Alex]

Query: Why do you care?

[Idocreating]

Why does America love it's FEWT-BAAAALLLLL so much, whereas England and the rest of Europe is more into Football, or Soccer to you yanks.

Different countries enjoy different sports/games than others. The Spanish for example love to fuck around with bulls. It's just how the world works.

[KeroKeroMario]

PC games are just popular in South Korea. The RPG and strategy genres are among the most popular genres there.

[RazorHawk]

At 5/30/10 09:43 AM, PartaySelect wrote: Playing StarCraft requires that much use of your brain?

Gee, last I checked, StarCraft battles were typically won in the first 30 seconds by whoever could string up a building queue the fastest and have the quickest access to their endless hotkey configurations.

StarCraft stopped being tactical or strategic a long time ago. It is now a glorified clicking contest.

Don't believe me? ZERG RUSH!

Truer words have never been spoken. This is mainly the reason why I don't bother with online real time "strategy" games. Comparing Starcraft to chess is like comparing real crime scene investigation to a game of Clue. They're so off that its laughable.

[MrPercie]

Well wether starcraft is really all that strategic or not I like to stay on question rather than get a bunch of starcraft and rts fans here raging.

Yeah about the sports. Spain has a lot of bull fights and running of the bull but I guess that is something they did years ago. Football has been around for 50-70ish years (that is as a major sport rather than a game). But I guess everything is moving up where fun games are being turned into completive sports.

[DirtySyko]

SC became massively popular because of timing, not because of some innate Korean trait that they're all obsessed with strategy games.

"1998 was the time when Korea began to enjoy the fruits of massive investment in the Internet infrastructure - the structure that still gives Korea the fastest Internet in the world. Right on time for online game play, StarCraft proved to be the best game to play online. And truly, that's what it came down to. StarCraft gained its initial popularity by being the game that responded the best to the new reality of online gaming. The rest is history."

This is usually how things work out for almost anything, it's all about timing. If the game Everquest was released now, all the same mechanics but updated graphics to compete with today's standards, it wouldn't come close to the success it achieved going up against WoW. But, since it was one of the first popular MMOs and nothing else was really around to compete with it, people will always remember EQ as one of the first and most popular MMOs.

[Jercurpac]

The storyline of Starcraft is based on Korean history so it's appealing to them in a way that people from other nations don't understand. The Zerg are representative of imperialist Japan in the early 20th century. The Zerg desire to incorporate Terrans into the Hivemind is analogous to Japan's occupation of Korea where they stamped out Korean language and culture.

In Brood War the United Earth Directorate can be likened to an early communist North Korea which used its, then stronger, infrastructure in an attempt to subdue and overtake south Korea. The UED's idea of the "Divinity of Mankind" is meant to resemble the juche ideology that is used as the overriding doctrine in North Korean culture.

[XwaynecoltX]

Who knows really it might be because Blizz, does massive adverts all over the world not just televised stuff, but acualy shows to really get people into new stuff and old alike.

~X~

[MiroDK]

At 5/30/10 12:05 PM, Jercurpac wrote: stuff

And where does the Protoss fit in this epic little tale? Clever analysis though.

[jonthomson]

At 5/30/10 11:52 AM, DirtySyko wrote: SC became massively popular because of timing, not because of some innate Korean trait that they're all obsessed with strategy games.

"1998 was the time when Korea began to enjoy the fruits of massive investment in the Internet infrastructure - the structure that still gives Korea the fastest Internet in the world. Right on time for online game play, StarCraft proved to be the best game to play online. And truly, that's what it came down to. StarCraft gained its initial popularity by being the game that responded the best to the new reality of online gaming. The rest is history."

basically this

and lol @ whoever said it's just a glorified clicking contest when the best player aorn doesn't even have that high of an APM

[Viri]

At 5/30/10 09:43 AM, PartaySelect wrote: Don't believe me? ZERG RUSH!

TOO BAD IT'S ME, TERRAN WALL.

[forevergrimm]

At 5/30/10 10:41 AM, RazorHawk wrote: Truer words have never been spoken. This is mainly the reason why I don't bother with online real time "strategy" games. Comparing Starcraft to chess is like comparing real crime scene investigation to a game of Clue. They're so off that its laughable.

Sorry if I'm missing the point, but it's also like comparing DDR to actual dancing or Guitar Hero to actual guitar.

Anyways, the Koreans liking Starcraft thing might be because it's one of few games translated to Korean.