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Next week 600 gamers from 55 countries will compete in Seoul, South Korea, at the third annual World Cyber Games for prizes worth $350,000. The big draw: Counter-Strike, in which teams of "terrorists" and "counterterrorists" battle it out. Other six-figure tournaments include one hosted by the Cyberathlete Professional League, which offers $250,000 in cash and merchandise and boasts an online audience in the tens of thousands, and id Software's QuakeCon, in which 400 top gamers play Quake III and other id titles...
...taking the pressure very well," says a foreign businessman who once counted himself as a Roh supporter. "I can even see a scenario in which he opens his mouth at the wrong time and resigns." Says Kim Il Young, a political scientist at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul: "This is not something that happens in a normal democracy...
...ballot box. With his own popularity in free fall, analysts say Roh could wind up leading a minority party, his presidency paralyzed by a conservative opposition and a vengeful MDP. "He could remain as a lame-duck President," says Ahn Chung Si, a political scientist at Seoul National University. "If that doesn't work out, he may have to step down...
...they have no clue what he wants to do about labor-union strife, which has badly damaged the South's economy. He went to the U.S. earlier this year to pledge support for Washington's hard-line stance on North Korea, then backpedaled furiously on his return to Seoul to placate Korea's angry young anti-Americans. Roh has strained the U.S. alliance further by stalling for two months on Washington's request for South Korea to send combat troops to Iraq?and by implicitly threatening to withhold them unless the U.S. overcomes its impasse with the North...
Hubbard said that officials in Seoul are giving the request “serious consideration,” though “no decisions have been made...