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Rick Zeman writes "CNN has an expose showing that in South Korea, the world's most wired country, Internet gaming breeds two extremes: elite "athletes" who earn fame and six figures, and addicts who literally play until they die and tells the stories of players on both sides of that real-life divide. From the article: 'The first thing you notice about the professional video game players are their fingers -- spindly creatures that seem to flail about at their own will, banging at the computer keyboard with such frequency and ferocity that to visit their live-in training centers in South Korea is to be treated to a maddening drum roll of clicks and clacks.'"http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=The+Extremes+of+Internet+Gaming+In+Sou th+Korea%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FQ3Lhvo)http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fgames.slashdot.org%2Fsto ry%2F12%2F08%2F06%2F1419241%2Fthe-extremes-of-internet-gaming-in-south-korea%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfaceb ook)http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://games.slashdot.org/story/12/08/06/1419241/the-extremes-of-internet-gaming-in-south-korea?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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