On Sunday I stumbled upon this Buddhist temple that’s literally carved into the side of a mountain. There’s a metal stair case that leads up to the entrance now a days, but I’m still trying to figure out how they initially built it there. This is just one of many reasons why I’m going to miss South Korea. Hmmmmmm…….I wonder how much Kimchi they’ll let me check in my luggage?

It’s official. I can now add international voice actor to my resume now. What a great gig! The job was for an ESL app and it paid pretty well for the 45 minutes worth of “work” that I put into it. I was really nervous at first, but by the end I was having quite a bit of fun and thinking about how cool it would be if this was my full-time job. If I do wind up coming back to Korea, voice acting will be the first thing that I look into doing. Worst come to worst it’ll at least make me better at karaoke. Inching my way closer and closer to Thailand!

In honor of the recent release of Starcraft 2 which I may or may not have excitedly preordered months ago, we went into the archives and dug up some long lost (and awesome) footage from our season in Seoul and this interview with the world’s premiere pro-gamer.

In Korea Starcraft is like baseball in America.  A huge audience , multiple professional leagues, and most everyone has or does play it.  Its just part of the culture.  We were lucky enough not only to see a couple professional matches while we were there but to interview the best eSports player of all time – Lim Yo-Hwan aka “SlayerS_`BoxeR`” aka “The Emperor”.

BoxeR as he is more commonly known makes over $300,000 USD a year to play and has endorsements that bring in around an additional $90,000 each year.  That’s right.  Almost a half million dollars a year to play video games.  Oh, he also has a 500,00 person fan club, most of which is female.

Live eSports match. Feel the intensity.

In Korea there are actually two e-sports channels and at any time of the day you can flip on the TV and watch televised Starcraft matches complete with three different announcers providing commentary.  It’s so popular that lots of bars will turn on all of the TVs to cover the big match of the week.  Oh, and it doesn’t stop there.

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