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  • if you're a gamer in Korea,

  • you probably spend time at a PC bang.

  • These are 24-hour video game cafes

  • where die-hards play for hours on end.

  • This gentleman's Won-Jae,

  • he speaks English really well.

  • You've seen me play video games online, you said.

  • Yes, yes.

  • You think I'm good.

  • Kind of.

  • (laughter) Okay, what do you

  • really mean by that?

  • No.

  • (laughing) No, okay.

  • Show me what's the most popular game in Korea.

  • What do I want to see?

  • Starcraft.

  • You can click on with your right mouse.

  • Yea

  • And those zergs will go kill them.

  • Kill them, kill them, kill them!

  • Kill them.

  • Am I doing a good job? Yes

  • So now what do I do, do I just wait?

  • Yeah. You know what?

  • Maybe you should just play this game

  • and I should go find a place to have alcohol?

  • Sounds good.

  • (video game music) What's the longest

  • you've spent in a PC bang?

  • (sighs) 14 hours?

  • You've spent 14 hours in a PC bang?

  • But that was because I was drunk

  • and didn't have anywhere to go.

  • And so I played games for 14 hours.

  • Is that why the seats are plastic?

  • You just urinate while you're playing?

  • (laughter)

  • I've never urinated while I was playing.

  • (laughter)

  • I'm told that Koreans spend so much time

  • playing these games

  • that you can order snacks.

  • What's this one called, do you know?

  • That's squid chips.

  • Squid chips.

  • These are chips that taste like squid?

  • Mhm.

  • Okay.

  • Is that a popular snack here?

  • I guess.

  • I guess some people like it, some people don't.

  • Right, you just described most foods.

  • Good for you, Jae-Won.

  • It's Won-Jae.

  • Oh, Won-Jae.

  • Well, I'm sorry.

  • I'm high on squid chips. (laughter)

  • What's this right here?

  • Those are king shells.

  • King shells?

  • What does that mean?

  • You know, a shellfish?

  • So a king shellfish.

  • So basically, you guys take whatever you just find

  • on the beach at low tide

  • and you eat the rest.

  • That's about it.

  • Okay.

  • Oh my God.

  • What is this?

  • It's egg dipped in soy sauce.

  • Why would you.

  • I just think an egg is not something you would sell

  • like a, this is like an M&M packaging.

  • And there's this snack.

  • Can you tell us what this is right here?

  • It's called silkworm pupa.

  • When a silkworm makes a cocoon,

  • you take the silk away.

  • You boil it with soy sauce

  • and you eat it.

  • Is this something you enjoy?

  • Yeah, I kind of like it.

  • Okay.

  • Have you ever tried it?

  • No.

  • Okay.

  • I just won.

  • You just won? Yeah.

  • Really? Yeah.

  • Wow, that was joyless.

  • Victory.

  • Yeah, victory.

  • You won.

  • Could we change to a game that I might have

  • some chance of understanding?

  • Yes.

  • That was,

  • what we Americans call a shit show for me.

  • They say Korean Counter-Strike

  • so you would be shooting other

  • people in this game. Okay.

  • (loud typing)

  • (laughter)

  • You playing video games,

  • it looks like you work at a bank.

  • (laughter)

  • (typing)

  • (laughter)

  • I'd like an aisle seat.

  • And what my favorite plan was.

  • Now we can begin the game?

  • Yes

  • Or does this just give us the privilege

  • of writing 7,000 other lines of code?

  • Well, there will be no more typing

  • unless you want to insult someone on the game.

  • What are common insults in Korea?

  • They talk about your family a lot.

  • Really?

  • Yea

  • Mean things about your family?

  • Very mean things about your family.

  • It seems like such a polite culture.

  • So we're using an N16 rifle right now.

  • Okay.

  • You got AK-47

  • or a sniper.

  • So what kind of gun would you like?

  • I think my best weapon is this music.

  • I think that's gonna help ward off any

  • foe who comes my way.

  • Where do I go?

  • Go into this way

  • Okay then what?

  • Space W

  • Okay, W.

  • W, what did I do wrong?

  • You just got killed.

  • I got killed that quickly?

  • It took us about an hour to get loaded!

  • (yelling)

  • Yes, yes!

  • (cheering)

  • What's happening?

  • Why is that woman,

  • we're looking up her skirt,

  • and she's dancing.

  • What is happening?

  • (Won-Jae laughs)

  • What is this?

  • I don't even know what's happening!

  • (laughs) Why is this happening in a game?

  • That was the weirdest episode of

  • Teletubbies I've ever seen.

  • (laughter)

  • Is there any way I can taunt other people?

  • Yes.

  • Why don't you write,

  • "Your family eats soy eggs."

  • Rotten soy eggs.

  • Your mother does not prepare

  • squid properly.

  • They're ignoring me?

  • Yea, they're ignoring you.

  • I am Conan O'Brien and I am playing

  • this game right now.

  • Oh, he's like, "so what?" (laughing)

  • So what?

  • I'm going to call you soy egg.

  • He says you're really not funny.

  • Then say that's proof that

  • this is Conan O'Brien.

if you're a gamer in Korea,

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