MYM]Moon, Jang Jae Ho, a professional Warcarft III gamer, has donated $4300 to the earthquake relief. His team, Meet Your Makers (MYM), has also contributed $2000 to aid Sichuan earthquake victims.
Gamers are a helpful lot too.*Wink*
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Former World Cyber Games (WCG) StarCraft: Brood War 2003 Korean champion Lee Yong Bum (ogogo) was nabbed for breaking into an advertising company and looted more than $18k of video equipment last year. Prior to this, Lee had stolen a handphone in his high school and robbed a rental van driver.
In his account to the police, the retired Zerg pro said he has suffered enormous stress due to long training hours and mediocre results during his pro-gaming days. Has instant StarCraft fame and failure get the better of him? We really don’t know.
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Jang Jae Ho aka MYM]Moon is the most powerful money magnet in Korea’s professional gaming scene in 2007. Over $130 000 worth of prizes has gone into his pocket in 2007, also making him one of the top earners in his gaming club, MYM (MeetYourMakers).
Who says gaming doesn’t pay?
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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 …read more

JJ Lin, Lin Junjie or 林俊杰, is Samsung’s youth ambassador and he has the job to sing, dance, promote and play in the Asian leg of World Cyber Games (WCG) in August. As an enthu gamer, JJ will display his DOTA (Defence of The Ancients Allstars) skills in the event. If all else fails, JJ can croon a few songs from Westside, his new album.
Actually the gaming culture among Singapore teens and kids is pretty healthy but pro-gaming is still not in the list of well-recognized professional jobs in Singapore. No mummy in Singapore will tell their kids to go …read more

You don’t have to sing till your heads off in American, Singapore or China Idol or dance like crazy in some think-you-can-dance contest to become famous. The Dormitory Boys take lip sync to a whole new level and become idols in this genre. Same as pro gaming, practice makes perfect.
Head down to their official English site for more songs, in English and Mandarin.

Wanna compete with this guy in Tetris? 0.o

Death Mode Pro Tetris via TechEBlog