Why Korea Is So Into StarCraft & PC Gaming…

In an interview with GameAxis, Korea pro-gaming CounterStrike (CS) team, Lunatic-Hai, revealed why Korea is so obsessed with PC gaming and StarCraft and don’t give a damn to video game consoles. An interesting read for inspiring pro-gamers.

Well it’s the same everywhere. When we first started off our parents naturally said things like: “Why don’t you do normal sports?” Some even go to extremes like hiding computers or throwing them out of windows, so yeah we totally understand how struggling pro-gamers must feel in Singapore. After a while though we were featured in magazines and on television, managed to earn some money and went overseas for matches. Through this, the parents eventually realized that we were passionate about what we do, and the attitude towards e-sports became a lot more respectful. Right now they are really supportive, helping us settle things like visa documents and so on.