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  • So when I was growing up,

  • I played a lot of computer games, I played a lot o strategy games,

  • and I thought that I was really good at those games.

  • But I was annoyed that being good at those games didn't make me cool,

  • it didn't make girls like me, whereas being good at a physical sport

  • like football, girls would like me for that.

  • Well in the Western countries that I grew up in, England and America,

  • eSports never kind of rose to the same level of a sport.

  • Here in Korea, they game.

  • Luckily, for those of us who are past our competitive gaming prime,

  • there are plenty of other gigs available in the eSports industry.

  • Equally as famous is the players themselves,

  • are the professional commentators known as shoutcasters.

  • Their energetic, play by play analysis is one of the biggest draws for fans.

  • Snuck around the side, teleported into the base.

  • And then he's on the nexus and I'm like, oh, oh this is happening.

  • Oh, oh okay, this is happening.

  • He's a completely different type of player.

  • He's on a completely different level.

  • We've got the consistent players, and we've got the clutch players.

  • Is consistently a clutch player.

  • That's going to be some big damage, oh my God,

  • they actually pull off the kill as well.

  • You can see the crowd is even stunned on that one.

  • To find out what it takes to become a shoutcaster, I went for

  • a lesson at NIceGame TV.

  • One of the forerunning online eSport stations in Seoul.

  • Let's go see your studio.

  • This is our webcam.

  • Oh, wow. So we're live right now.

  • Oh, hi.

  • The amount of people watching this right now is just insane.

  • The, the screen is just scrolling through 100s and 100s of messages,

  • people are saying gay, bye.

  • Hey, hi, I love you.

  • No, not gay, what the fuck?

  • Hey, Gay TV.

  • Nice Gay TV.

  • Hi. Yeah.

  • I can see you all saying hi.

  • And look forward to our documentary about eSports where you're all featured and

  • all of you are very mature comments on my sexuality.

  • We're gonna do a live stream of a League of Legends game and

  • I don't really know much about the game but.

  • Hopefully I'll be able to learn as we go.

  • So what's going on here?

  • I agree.

  • Oh, he almost killed him.

  • Right?

  • Yeah.

  • That's right.

  • Yeah, GG, good game.

  • GG They initiated with an aid to initiate,

  • I mean, I had no question that they were going to win from the beginning.

  • They really deserve this.

  • They put 110% in and it's great to see them win.

  • Yeah.

  • He's an expert.

  • In addition to broadcasting, NiceGame TV also train up and coming talent.

  • They introduced us to two young gamers,

  • who had just been scouted by a professional team.

  • How many hours do you put in per day, or, or per week?

  • Do you have a plan if it doesn't work out in gaming?

  • So you've just left the NiceGame TV studios,

  • where we met some of the world's future eSports stars.

  • They have this almost robotic dedication to the game, where they're playing 14 or

  • 15 hours.

  • I can only imagine what effect that must have on a young person's mind and life.

  • Internet addiction is said to effect 2 million South Koreans, and

  • half of its entire teenage population.

  • In 2011, the Korean Congress passed a law known as the Cinderella Act,

  • putting Internet addiction in the same category as drugs and alcohol, and

  • preventing children under the age of 16 from playing online games after midnight.

  • By making them use their national identity numbers, children's online accounts

  • now automatically shut down when the clock strikes 12.

  • This Cinderella Act created an uproar in the gaming community.

  • He found political representation in a gaming congressman named Byung Jun Hun.

  • Spearheading the campaign, the congressman dressed up in League of Legends cosplay,

  • in solidarity with the gamers.

  • As head of the Korean e-Sports Association, he was also cleverly enticing

  • the votes of Korea's rapidly expanding gamer demographic.

  • But despite the gamers' retaliation,

  • a quarter of those diagnosed with internet addiction will end up being

  • hospitalized in a government sponsored internet rehab center.

  • I'm in the waiting room, I'm here to meet a guy called Dr. Lee Jae-Won.

  • We've heard that he has some pretty unorthodox methods of treating people with

  • computer game addiction.

  • We've heard something about brain scans with electrodes,

  • virtual reality therapy, and some kind of magnetic brain pulse.

  • I don't know anything about neuropsychiatry and

  • I certainly don't know anything about brain pulse therapy.

  • So, I'm especially curious to find out how those methods can help cure some one who

  • plays too many computer games.

  • What are the types of people who suffer from internet addiction?

  • How much of this is a result of specifically online gaming?

  • Sitting here has made me realize that,

  • if I actually was a gaming addict,

  • how terrifying this would be if my parents had forced me to be here,

  • and a doctor was putting electrodes on my head.

  • Woah. In 2005, a young South Korean man dropped

  • dead after playing StarCraft for 50 hours straight.

  • And since then, the perceived dangers of gaming addiction

  • have been a considerable source of anxiety for Korea's older generations.

  • But generally, the most extreme symptoms of gaming addiction are sleep deprivation,

  • mood swings, and seizures.

  • Every time I hear that clicking noise in the next room,

  • I know that someone's getting their brain fried by magnetic shock therapy.

  • Okay, cool.

  • It felt like someone had struck my bones with a tuning fork.

  • But was I cured?

  • To find out I had to enter Dr. Lee's final stage of therapy, in which

  • patients are sat in a chair and told to watch footage of violent video games,

  • like the Ludovico technique from A Clockwork Orange,

  • to see how much they can endure without getting the urge to game.

  • So this is the final stages of your treatment.

  • What do you consider a cured patient?

  • Would you consider

  • the professional

  • games to be at

  • risk of addiction,

  • or already

  • addicted?

  • Whatever you think about this particular brand

  • of brain zapping therapy, one thing is for sure,

  • this speed as which gaming was taking over Korea,

  • was making a lot of people genuinely worried.

  • In today's world of global comic cons, cosplay is everywhere.

  • But much like eSports, it's the Koreans who do it best.

  • Costume competitions are almost as competitive as the eSports

  • leagues themselves, and

  • teams who aim to win trophies, have to treat it as a full time career.

  • We went to the outskirts of Seoul to meet one of Korea's top eSports cosplay crews.

  • Team CSL.

  • We're in a kind of peaceful idyllic suburban town.

  • The kind of place you might want to retire to.

  • In one of these houses is a cosplay team.

  • There's knights, dragons, mythical creatures,

  • all hanging out, while the community has no idea, that unbeknownst to them.

  • Through there is a portal to a mythical world.

  • It is a bit Twin Peaks-y.

  • I feel like I'm visiting my nan's house.

  • Except my nan wouldn't have a battle axe outside.

  • Hi.

  • Hey guys, how are you?

  • Hi.

  • You guys make all your own costumes?

  • How can a human fit inside this?

  • But what about the practicality of this?

  • I mean you've never made a costume this big, what if it all just goes totally

  • wrong and you fall over in front of hundreds of people?

  • Most of our parents don't actually accept the hobby, because they're like,

  • it's a waste of time, and they think that costume play is for kids.

  • So they don't' understand what we get out of all this.

  • My house is dirty, you are making a mess and you are wearing a child's costume.

  • So I'm gonna try on a costume that they picked for me.

  • It's one of the League of Legends characters.

  • And apparently it involves spandex.

  • Okay, this might be really revealing, I'm warning you.

  • How do I look?

  • Okay, so is this my character?

  • What's his name?

  • Pulse Ezreal.

  • What? Pulse Ezreal.

  • Pulse Ezreal.

  • Cool.

  • Is he, like, a Zionist knight?

  • Okay, cool.

  • And what's this?

  • Is this my weapon?

  • Yes.

  • You can turn on the switch.

  • Does it do anything?

  • Yes. Nice!

  • This isn't as uncomfortable as I thought.

  • I can totally just wear this all day.

  • I might go out like this in the future.

  • Do I look like a cyberpunk Kurt Cobain right now?

  • Because that's what I feel like.

  • So has just invited us to take his golf cart

  • out to one of his favorite spots in town.

  • So I can look like this in an environment

  • that's most suitable for League of Legends.

  • There's only so

  • much you can learn about the cultures at home by watching people play computer

  • games for hours on end.

  • If you really wanna understand gaming, dress up like a giant robot, get into

  • the wilderness and then you'll know that computer games are fucking awesome.

So when I was growing up,

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