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...arguably works longer hours at his chosen career than does South Korea's president. "I just practice as much as I can, so I will improve." Of course many parents the world over would consider Choi's career itself a hobby, but in South Korea, being a professional video-gamer is a serious business...
...Choi is probably Korea's best-known gamer, having clinched the gold medal at last year's World Cyber Games in Italy. The tall, slender champion of the computer began training when he was 16, and hopes eventually to retire a wealthy man. "I want to be rich," he says simply, and that may not be idle talk: Gamers at Choi's level of skill can earn several hundred thousand dollars a year off their keyboard and mouse - and the adulation of the nation's twenty- and thirty somethings, especially young women. Here, gaming isn't regarded as a geeky...
...ever heard of,” says Allen Cheng ’09, one of the organizers of the event. The president of HIMG, Benjamin S. Decker ’08, said that his organization is “trying to establish a community of gamers in the area.” “In the long term, we’re pushing to get a more official media studies program here at Harvard,” said Decker, who is pursuing a special concentration in Interactive Media Studies. Fan Zhang ’09, who helped organize...
...contrast, Carmack, 36, says he is just a computer guy who got bored and taught himself rocket science. Yet in aerospace circles, the gamer and head of id Software is respected for doing results-oriented rocketry work on little dime. His shop in a suburban Dallas business complex looks like something out of Star Wars--Watto's junk shop on Tatooine, to be precise. Carmack takes you first to see his graveyard of old projects to explain his philosophy: Fly a whole lot, and learn where the gotchas are. He admits that he would like to go to the moon...
...prevailing image of Koreans in America is more StarCraft pro-gamer than sexy pop star, but the jam-packed Starr Auditorium is more than enough evidence that, while Harvard might not know it yet, the Hallyu is gaining momentum...