Social Affairs
Graduate student rises as developer of Korea's longest-running online game
May 9, 2016
In 1990, South Korea-based Korea Advanced Institute of Science (KAIST) opened a computer room wit 25 PCs, when the country was only taking its first steps towards emerging as the world's leading player in information and communications (ICT) technology.Song Jae-kyung, then a young graduate student in his 20s, was in charge of managing one of the country's first Internet cafes.Only a few years later, Song, now 49 years old, changed the history of South Korea's gaming industry by developing the co