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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Moon Helps Earthquake Victims Too

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.

Image: Sina

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Former WCG StarCraft Champion Nabbed For Break-In, Even Zergs Can’t Help

Who says gaming doesn’t pay?

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Who Earns The Most In Korea Professional Gaming Scene?

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.

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Why Korea Is So Into StarCraft & PC Gaming…

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 pro in gaming. Instead, gaming is viewed as a total waste of time by kiasu (afraid-to-lose) parents in Singapore. Sigh, paper qualifications still call the shots.

Via The Straits Times (Singapore), Home, H5

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JJ Lin Becomes Samsung’s Youth Ambassador, Promotes Gaming Culture Among Singapore Youth

Head down to their official English site for more songs, in English and Mandarin.

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The Dormitory Boys – Lip Sync Idols

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Old Game of Tetris, Anyone?