Why are South Koreans so good at video games?

Why are South Koreans so good at video games?

Because their culture is supportive of e-sports and it plays a large part in their society. That's like asking why is England so good at football.

They're channeling the hatred they have for japs into video games

they, who you know of, are literally pro gamers
its serious business
the others are casual af and they dont even have consoles or a gaming pc or portable devices like 3ds

>england good at football

They're not.
For every game they're good at, there's 10 more they are shit at.
It's like asking why are niggas great at fighting games. It's not some special cultural or genetic thing. It's simply all they ever play.

>England so good at football.

*so good at shit games

Korean culture worships pouring your heart and soul into a singular activity, whether that's studying, work or whatever.

In Korea, if you say that you spent 12 hours studying yesterday, people will be very proud of you. In most other countries you'll be mocked.

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Because they have an industry of chinless dorks who dedicate their life to getting good at toys.

Presumably there's a degree of innate potential (or increased quantity of individuals with innate potential, rather) gained from East-Asians having a high average IQ. It certainly can't hurt. However, by far the most impactful factor is the culture and infrastructure that comes with it. I understand the emerging popularity of PC Bangs was one of the key reasons for Brood War becoming big in Korea, I'm sure you can find detailed articles about the topic, but no matter how the whole thing started, professional StarCraft became a thing in Korea.

And it really was a professional enterprise rather than being mere friendly competition, with people living in team houses following carefully constructed training regimens while coaches, psychologists and doctors looked after the players and came up with new ways of training, and promising talent being actively scouted for. Moreover, given that players actually earned wages, the innate risk in going pro was decreased (your livelihood not being reliant on consistently placing high in tournaments) and with the kind of sponsorships and lasting fame the most renowned players earned, becoming the best was extra lucrative.

In other words, if the potential to become truly great exists in, say, one in a hundred thousand people, in South Korea, a large portion of those individuals did attempt to go pro, while everywhere else in the world, people with the greatest potential might not even have played competitively, and even if they did become really good, they had neither the training partners or opportunity to start practicing full-time.

basically they do the same shit china does. in a word, they breed elitists driving away a bunch of half-baked players. so they dont have middle tier players. its their traditional thing whether its bad or good

Pepsi dosen't play video games, retard.

Japan > Korea

Prove me wrong, without posting that salty Korean's tism fit against a Japanese guy.

Are they?

>England so good at football.

football, or soccer as it's actually called

Work ethic and a culture that supports e-sports

It's called Football you cheeky twat, I would know, we invented the language. My lord American-English would descend into Swahili if we weren't around to keep you in check.

I'd like to see them enter the console/handheld market, they're holding themselfs back with all those shitty mmo's and phone games.

>best post itt that answers the OP
>ignored

I'm on Sup Forums alright.

>supportive of e-sports
>need to link your life to your internet ID
>if you are underage you cant access the internet
>have to steal your parents ID to play games past 10pm on weekdays and weekends