South Korean Gaming leads the way.

• Gaming is a highly developed market in South Korea and is experiencing a huge boom at the moment.
• The gamers, who contest the complex real-time strategy game, Starcraft, are celebrities in their own right. They are mobbed by teenage girls, they have their own clothing lines, and many of them are millionaires.
• To put Korean gaming into perspective, baseball's (South Korea's national sport) Grand FInal two years ago attracted 25,000 fans, whereas the Starcraft Final, which ran on the same weekend, had 100,000 spectators.
• The unreal tournament 3 contest is merely a quiet taster for what is to come from the korean faction of gaming.
• The excessive skill of the korean players means that they adopt the skills necessary to succeed in unreal tournament, something that the english champions take years to master to their full potential.
• They have made sure, with the obscene amount of money pumped into this industry, that Pro gaming could quite easily be the next big World Wide sports property and craze, with predictions that the sport and its players could reach the dizzy heights of professional Football.