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Giant Bomb in Korea: The GSL StarCraft II Finals

Brad infiltrates Korea for an exclusive glimpse at the country's national obsession.

Nov. 18 2010

Posted by: Drew

707 Comments

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Vicariously traveling.

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Goodbye Drew!!!

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Edited By NoobSauceG7

This is a great video! Great job Drew and Brad!

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Edited By SirPsychoSexy

Great video, great production, phenomenal game. Good Job as always!!

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I know I'm super late with this comment, but I don't care.  Brad and Drew...incredible job.  Great camera work, fantastic interviews, and phenomenal editing tie all of this together.  I know how much work goes into producing something like this, so you guys deserve all the credit in the world.  Keep up the great work.  I don't think you guys hear it enough, but we really appreciate the effort that goes into videos like this.

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I like rewatching this now and then.  The editing is so bad ass, not to mention my GSL superfandom.

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Edited By Koolaids_Back

Clothing... CLOTHING?!?!?! LoL'd at him giving his mom allowance XD

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Great video guys.

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Edited By hollitz

MAKEMOREMARINE

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Edited By CastroCasper

That battle was....epic.

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Edited By Kyle

NesTea, Tasteless, Artosis, and Idra? AWESOME. 
 
Oh, and Bob, of course.

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Edited By Kendstorm

LOL 
brad:glhb 
korean:?

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After watching this I'm not sure if I want to board the next plane to Seoul or avoid anything Korean like the fucking plague...
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@Ratfoot: Well, the island attacked is pretty far from Seoul, much closer to North Korea actually (thus the dispute) so they'd have been safe. 
 
GSL season 3 goes on unperturbed after all.
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Isn't this title kind of ironic and foreboding?

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@JeffGoldblum said:

" This video has a lot of a Seoul. "

Jesus Christ. *teeth grinding*
 
So, is there going to be more footage of Korea? More clips to come? I love this stuff!
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I always love these globetrotting videos..

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yikes,  kind of crazy that they were in the country so short before a skirmish

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Edited By Ratfoot

Man Kim Jong-Il missed Brad and Drew by about a week.

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Edited By ImperiousRix

Wow... I got the tingles. 
This is why I love video games and Giant Bomb.

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Edited By LiK

EPIC, Thanks Brad and Drew!

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Edited By dablemont

Pretty awesome! Thanks for sharing!

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Edited By afterburner1978

Beautiful editing guys! Really, you did a great job.
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@gamefreak9: It's more like soccer.... cause yeah everyone knows about it... but it's rare when people watch it regularly... There's also few people who play starcraft to become pros.
I mean look 3000 people turned up at the finals... Yeah that's a lot of people but it's not even close to the popularity of soccer in korea.
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Holy fireball!!  That was sweet.

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Unreal. Just unreal.

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Edited By RVonE

Wow, Drew did a really good job filming and producing this feature! 
It was also cool to see Brad actually getting the chance to interview the winner. Very cool.
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Heh, I use to go to Seoul Foreign School for 4 years there. Nostalgic vid

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@gamefreak9:  American football is huge here in the U.S, along with basketball and baseball.  Soccer/football isn't nearly as popular, but it's growing as more people are exposed to it.
 
And of course, everyone becomes a soccer fan when the World Cup is on.
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Very well produced. It manged to make Starcraft 2 exciting... :)

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wasn't as entertaining as it should have been
 
what did you do spend 1 day in korea then fly right back? lol

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@joku2002 said:
"

Saw a quick glimpse of maplestory in that internet cafe.

"
Glad I'm not the only one, yet, I am somehow ashamed
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good luck, have batman

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Very cinematic emotion evoking stuff, High quality content wish I cared about starcraft still enjoyed it though

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Superb work, guys. This was awesome.

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This video has a lot of a Seoul.

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This was a very interesting video. I knew there was a craze over there, but wow.
 
I would love to see more stuff like this, and the editing was really great.

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Brad, thank you very much for this story. I really enjoyed it!

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Great editing, Drewbert! This looked like one incredible trip. It's interesting to see something a bit different from Giant Bomb.

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Oh god. Why did you interview Idra. Regardless of the whole foreign angle, I just don't like him.

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@thefreed:  
Sorry i'm in europe here, football, as in American football in the US? isn't that big? or is it soccer? 
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@Kilnik said:
" This was cool. I'm going to Korea for Xmas and New Years. Maybe my gf will take me to the Led Zeppelin bar so I too can spit flames all over the place... "
The Led Zeppelin bar is not where that scene was filmed. That is just some bar that happened to be across the street from a BBQ place we ate at -- never been there. I'm not sharing the name of the bar where I spit fire -- it's just somewhere that all the bartenders know me and let me do crazy stuff.  
 
Do not try it at home kids. I'm a trained professional.
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Such an awesome video, props to whoever was on editing duty!

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Very interesting; great video.

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@Brodehouse: Idra has basically referred to himself that way before, so I don't think it was anything meant to be offensive. 
 
Also, Idra wouldn't mothership rush silly, he's a Zerg :p.  Now if he broke out the Nydus Worm...
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@InterGalacticPancakeLord:  This game isn't as big as you think... sure it's BIG, but it's not like the average joe is crazy about it you know what I mean? you could compare it to say... football or something in America O_O. And the e-sport thing is catching on in Europe as well.
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I have a feeling if Brad hadn't chosen journalism as a profession he'd be one hell of a contender in one of these things. glhb FTW.

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I'm amazed Brad wasn't rendered comatose after his experience. I lol'd at the "glhb" "?" exchange, though.
 
Oh, man, and I just got back from two and a half months Korea a week ago.
Got about four hundred dollars from all my relatives so that's pretty neat. Except for having to replace my PSP... which was decomissioned just a week into my visit. That sucked.