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Gaming Industry in Korea

The Top 10 Mobile Games in South Korea – Updated

Mobile Games in Korea
If you ever rode the Seoul Metro you will see that most Koreans are on the mobile phone. Over half the Korean population plays mobile games in South Korea. In fact, mobile gaming surpassed console gaming and PC gaming years ago. South Korea is the 4th largest mobile game market in the World after China, the U.S., and Japan. It is estimated these mobile gamers in Korea will spend around $6 billion on mobile games. This is why so many gaming companies all around the world want to enter the Korean mobile gaming market. However, in order to succeed, one must understand the gaming culture in Korea. This is one of the key advantages that Korean mobile gaming companies have over the world.
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AI vs Pro Gamers – How AI will end up Killing the Esports Industry

ai vs pro gamer
AI vs Pro Gamers? Who wins? Back in 2016, AlphaGo made headlines in South Korea when it beat the best GO player in the world, Lee Sedol in 4 games. From that point, it was becoming very clear that the advancement in AI technology was further along than many experts predicted. So obviously in Korea, there came talk of whether an AI computer can beat a top Starcraft 2 pro gamer. Korea has by far the top Starcraft 2 pro gamers in the world. Many of them feel the idea of an AI beating a top Starcraft 2 pro is decades away. However, DeepMind the creator of AlphaGo has come out with AlphaStar which now beats 99.8% of all human players on StarCraft 2. In addition, back in 2018, OpenAI's Dota 2 AI easily beat an Esports team in back to back victories.
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Top 10 Most Popular Esports in Korea of All Time

Esports in Korea
The gaming industry in Korea has been on fire over the last decade. Esports has been embraced in Korea unlike any other place on earth. If you walk along the streets of Seoul you are sure to see multiple "PC bangs" (computer game rooms) near every main metro station. Esports is now a worldwide phenomenon, however, the Korean market is a bit different than the global market. While DOTA 2 is the biggest Esports game globally, in Korea this is not the case. It is important to know which games are embraced by the Korean gaming community when trying to understand the typical gaming consumer in Korea. Esports in Korea will continue to grow as they hold more world-class Esports tournaments.
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