Oh and shoutout to LiquidHuk for helping me get a korean account
Feel free to ask questions about korea/players/whatever else you want to know and ill try to answer questions.
People living in the house(at some point in time):
Spades - American Terran from VTGaming
Laneir - SC2 Manager from VTGaming
mOOnGLaDe - Australian Zerg from FXO
BoSs - Manager of FXO
Torch - American Terran from VTGaming and Startale
Gisado - Gom Caster, pretty much everyones hero
Later on some others moved in:
cArn - French Terran, Knife Fighter
Teddy aka ProfessorOak - American Zerg
KellyMilkies - Code A Caster from Singapore
Doa - Code A Caster from USA
John or some of the other gom casters would stop by time to time or stay the night when games ran late.
Unfortunately the GOM house never got PC's so we spent most of our time in PC Bangs, and Moonglade and I were able to visit pro team house. We both did very well, finishing with winning ratios(no cleaning dishes for us). Each day we did better, the coaches and players really helped a lot.
The koreans arent really that far ahead of top foreigners, but they are definitely a lot more structured and dedicated so I'm not sure how long things will remain somewhat even. The korean ladder is much more difficult than NA/EU servers.
We all pretty much became best friends, and went out everywhere together. We frequently made trips to Hongdae to go clubbing. If you ever get out to seoul, check out Cocoon and Papa Gorilla, pretty amazing club/bars. Ho Bar you get 50$ bottles to pregame then go nuts. Nightlife in Korea is amazing. It's extremely cheap, and it never stops. If you go home before 6am you are wasting the night. Karaoke in korea is pretty awesome too, you get you're own private room, unlimited ice cream and it costs like 3$ per person.
Artosis and Tasteless are both awesome guys, and helped us out so much when we first arrived. Tasteless knows how to party. If you want to have a good time in korea, just find out what hes doing and tag along.
Bunch of pictures and random stuff:
Flight!
Our plane, waiting to board
Plane was pretty much empty, so we got whole rows to ourselves to sleep in
First sighting of Korea!
Seoul
Gom House and Roommates
Laneir, Doa and Teddy
Our Kitchen
Our "gaming stations", No computers still to this day
Bunkbeds, a child's dream
Spades and Carn looking awesome
Teddy being Teddy
Laneir posting up
Teddy, Doa, cArn
Mon Frere cArn, male model
Teddy
Doa doing his thing
A rare Torch sighting
Gisado in his private casting studio
mOOnGLaDe and IMMVP
GSL Studio/Finals
Outside the stadium
Finals stage
Crowd
More stage/crowd
Casting Studio
Random/Out around Seoul
Carn at E-Nature PC
Teddy laddering
IMMVP rides the subway too
Teddy on the train
Carn on the train
Will add more soon!