The Extremes of Internet Gaming In South Korea

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CNN has an expose showing that in South Korea, the world's most wired country, Internet gaming breeds two extremes: elite "athletes" who earn fame and six figures, and addicts who literally play until they die (http://www.cnn.com/interactive/2012/08/tech/gaming.series/korea.html?hpt=hp_c1) and tells the stories of players on both sides of that real-life divide. From the article: 'The first thing you notice about the professional video game players are their fingers -- spindly creatures that seem to flail about at their own will, banging at the computer keyboard with such frequency and ferocity that to visit their live-in training centers in South Korea is to be treated to a maddening drum roll of clicks and clacks

http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/08/06/1419241/the-extremes-of-internet-gaming-in-south-korea