Dedication pays off in south korea

Home to some of the world's top professionals, nation blazes a trail for the industry owing to its widespread passion for games like StarCraft

It is not hard to spot why some of the best StarCraft players come from South Korea, a country far smaller in terms of population than China or the United States.

In the most recent StarCraft II World Championship, a yearlong series of e-Sports tournaments organized by Blizzard Entertainment with a prize pool of $2 million, three of the eight players who made it to the quarterfinals hailed from South Korea.