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PC Bang
PC Bang's provide one of the most popular forms of entertainment in Korea: Online Multiplayer Gaming!
Get ready to enter the Korean version of digital entertainment. PC Bangs are Internet Cafe's on steroids and if you're into online multiplayer gaming you will be excused if you are overcome with emotion and burst into tears the first time you experience a PC Bang, it is simply any gamers dream come true.
To describe a PC Bang as an Internet Cafe does it a huge injustice. An Internet Cafe is the place you go to send a fax or make an international phone call. But a PC Bang is a place where you go play, eat and relax in front of a 22 inch computer monitor on a puffy leather chair that will make you feel like a VIP.
To describe a PC Bang as an Internet Cafe does it a huge injustice. An Internet Cafe is the place you go to send a fax or make an international phone call. But a PC Bang is a place where you go play, eat and relax in front of a 22 inch computer monitor on a puffy leather chair that will make you feel like a VIP.
PC Bangs are open 24 hours and many Koreans spend hours upon hours locked up in PC Bangs, playing their hearts away at one of the many online Korean games available. These places usually provide snacks and light meals like Ramien (Korean noodles), which you order by pressing the buzzer in your computer cubicle. Someone will come to take your order and deliver your food a few minutes later.
The Internet connections at PC Bangs are usually lightning fast, the monitors big, and the computers
The Internet connections at PC Bangs are usually lightning fast, the monitors big, and the computers
modern and speedy. Combine this with a hazy, comfortable atmosphere and you'll soon realise why PC Bangs are one of the most popular forms of entertainment for most Koreans.
If you're not much of a computer person and rarely use the Internet for recreation, all this might seem weird to you, but you have to keep something in mind: Korea is one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world and while we still push around paper in the West, things in Korea are done digitally. Korea boasts the fastest Internet connection on the globe and almost every household has broadband access, which is fairly inexpensive.
While in the west, older generations never use computers, this is not the case in Korea. In Korea almost everyone is computer literate and most people spend significant parts of the day on the Internet.
Sounds great right? It is great, if used within its boundaries, but affluence rarely is. Korea has one of the highest addiction rates to online gaming and stories of people neglecting real life in favour of playing some digital life they created for themselves in a game, is very sad, but very true. People have actually died in PC Bangs from a computer overdose (One guy played for three days straight, had a heart attack and it was suddenly game over). In 2010 the Korean goverment
If you're not much of a computer person and rarely use the Internet for recreation, all this might seem weird to you, but you have to keep something in mind: Korea is one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world and while we still push around paper in the West, things in Korea are done digitally. Korea boasts the fastest Internet connection on the globe and almost every household has broadband access, which is fairly inexpensive.
While in the west, older generations never use computers, this is not the case in Korea. In Korea almost everyone is computer literate and most people spend significant parts of the day on the Internet.
Sounds great right? It is great, if used within its boundaries, but affluence rarely is. Korea has one of the highest addiction rates to online gaming and stories of people neglecting real life in favour of playing some digital life they created for themselves in a game, is very sad, but very true. People have actually died in PC Bangs from a computer overdose (One guy played for three days straight, had a heart attack and it was suddenly game over). In 2010 the Korean goverment
PC Bangs are filled with gaming Koreans blasting away at some unknown foe in cyberspace.
introduced limitations on the amount of hours people are allowed to play certain online games, how well it will work to curb the addictions of many young Koreans, will have to be seen.
Well I'm sure you won't get addicted to some online game and spend all your hard earned money buying virtual stuff that only exists in cyberspace, so go check out a PC Bang. At about 1000 Won ($1) per hour, PC Bangs provide inexpensive entertainment and can be great fun, especially if you like gaming.
Well I'm sure you won't get addicted to some online game and spend all your hard earned money buying virtual stuff that only exists in cyberspace, so go check out a PC Bang. At about 1000 Won ($1) per hour, PC Bangs provide inexpensive entertainment and can be great fun, especially if you like gaming.
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