The LA Times has a feature on Lim Yo-hwan, South Korea's most popular professional Starcraft player. It's an enlightening piece for us North Americans who cannot fathom a nation where anyone cares about how others do in games, let alone a place with two 24/7 channels dedicated to Starcraft.

HE confessed to feeling "more nervous than usual" as he waited for his comeback fight to begin, his fingers fiddling inside a hand warmer to ward off the winter chill seeping through the walls of the coliseum.

The Emperor knew he had to keep his fingers loose.

A crowd of more than 1,000 people was waiting in the arena, with 1.78 million more watching over the Internet and on TV to see what those fingers could do, or, more to the point, whether they had gone cold in the five months since he disappeared from public view.

Read more on the LA Times website.