Editing PC bang (section)

==Industry==
[[File:2020-03-08 10.25.45 PC bang in South Korea.jpg|thumb|Food and drink sold in a PC ''bang'' (2020)]]
The most played games in PC ''bangs'' are known as [[massively multiplayer online role-playing games]], in which more than 100,000 people around the globe can play at the same time.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Demick|first=B.|date=September 22, 2005|title=Online overdose: South korea frets about online gaming addiction|publisher=The Ottawa Citizen|id={{ProQuest|240882962}}|language=en}}</ref> PC ''bangs'' rose to popularity following the release of the PC game ''[[StarCraft]]'' in 1998.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.internationalexperts.com/index.php/research/item/the-emergence-of-pc-bangs-in-a-dedicated-gaming-place|title=The Emergence of PC Bangs in a Dedicated Gaming Place|publisher=Internationalexperts|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126051917/http://www.internationalexperts.com/index.php/research/item/the-emergence-of-pc-bangs-in-a-dedicated-gaming-place|archive-date=2016-01-26}}</ref> At the time South Korea had a thriving computer industry with Internet use reaching over 50% of the population. {{Asof|2002}}, 25 million citizens were using the Internet, and 14.4 million Korean homes were equipped with Internet access.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Yang|first=S. J.|title=56 percent of Korean use Internet at least once a month|language=en|work=[[The Korea Herald]]|date=2002|url=http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2002/01/16/200201160051.asp|access-date=August 11, 2013}}</ref> Accompanying this high rate of home Internet access it is estimated the number of PC ''bangs'' grew from 100 to 25,000 between 1997 and 2011.<ref>Larissa Hjorth. Games and Gaming: An Introduction to New Media. Bloomsbury, 2011</ref> Many popular South Korean multiplayer games provide players with incentives which encourage them to play from a PC ''bang''. For example, the [[Nexon]] games [[Kart Rider]] and [[PopTag|BnB]] reward players with bonus "Lucci" — the games' virtual currencies — when they log on from a PC ''bang''.