Korean Internet Cafe Is a Once In a Lifetime Experience

Hello gentle people. Guess where I'm at. Today I've come to a Korean internet cafe. In Korea, an internet cafe or a PC bang in Korean is way more than just a place where you can pay to use one of their gaming PCs. In this country where esport is actually considered a sport, it's a place where you hang out with your friends, eat foods that are surprisingly delicious, and even make new friends to play games with like I'm going to do in this video. So today I've come to Bundang, Korea which isn't too far from Seoul, to show you guys what a really good internet cafe looks like. So what are we waiting for? Come with me. So these internet cafes are so common in Korea that just looking around here, there's one PC bang, another one over there, another one in that building, and yet another one over there. We must really love playing video games or something, right? This one over here is the PC bang that I'm going to today. It's called Level Up PC Bang. That's a really intuitive name. By the way, I must let you guys know that this video is sponsored by Squarex. It's a chrome extension for your online security that keeps you safe from the ill-intended people on the internet that are dying to steal your personal information. I'll explain how it works later in the video, but once again, a massive shout out to Squarex for sponsoring this video. Level Up PC Cafe. They're advertising their food too. Wow, that looks really good. All right, it's in the basement level. This is pretty exciting. The moment I walked in, I could immediately tell that this is one of the nicest internet cafes that I've ever been to. It was still pretty early in the day, so there weren't that many people at this time. So let's give you guys a quick tour. Here's a counter where a very hard-working part-timer is making food. So typically when you come to a Korean PC bang, this would be like a typical setup for you. You get your little gaming chair. Hopefully it's comfortable. Your personal PC that is nicely partitioned off from other people. They have a nice Snow White Logitech mouse, mechanical keyboard, and a pink wireless phone charger, and a pink headset. It looks like they have a whole princess theme going here. I'm a little sensitive to smell, so when a PC bang doesn't smell good, which actually does happen in Korea too, it really turns me off. But this PC bang is clean. It actually doesn't smell like anything. So a lot of Korean internet cafes, they have couple seating. So it's pretty much the same gaming PC setup, except they have a lower partition. Sometimes they don't even have a partition between them. And here you can sit side by side like a cute couple and play video games together. Doesn't that sound fun? Now they don't always have things like this, but they have a team room here. What it is, is a little private room. They said this room's not on a reservation basis. If you come with a group of three or more, you can just ask them if you can use this space. Man, this would be so fun with friends. They even have a party room here, and the party room here is massive. Let's take a look. So it looks like there's 14 gaming PCs here, and a little sitting area at the end with a TV, and a bunch of board games. They said to use this room, you have to make a reservation for it. If you're like a gamer and you want to have a birthday party with a bunch of friends, my god, that would be a blast. Without further delay, let's start using the PC. So the way it works is by purchasing a prepaid time. So it says 1,000 won for 40 minutes, but if you buy more time in advance, it gets a little cheaper. So I would say it's just around a dollar per hour. I don't know how you guys feel about it. I think it's very affordable. About 10 years ago when I was a little kid, internet cafe used to cost the same amount of money. Actually, it was a little more expensive back then. So for 3 hours and 20 minutes, that would be three dollars in US dollars. You can use your credit card to pay for it, which is awesome. Now when you do pay for it, you get this little ticket over here. The ticket has a little number. That's your number. In most internet cafes, you can just claim any seat that's empty. You don't have to talk to the worker. So I know their gaming PCs are hidden under the desk. You can actually see the fan over here. Once you sit down, you just need to turn the PC on. The power switch is over here. I am impressed by how clean they are. Number 3017. Three, zero, one, seven. And enter. And now I'm in. On their desktop, you can find all the games that are pre-installed. Before I start playing, I want to check their specs. 13th generation i5 CPU and a 16 gig RAM. That is a pretty good PC and more than enough for almost all kinds of gaming. And I want to see what kind of GPU they have. The most crucial part for this. Oh wow, they have an RTX 4060. It's not the top-of-the-line GPU, but it's the newest generation GPU at this time. And that'll run a lot of games very smoothly. So the specs here are very impressive. Must have been a pretty significant investment for the Mr. Owner to invest in like hundreds of high-spec gaming PCs like that. Isn't it so convenient that they have this wireless charger over here? By default, they usually have this bar speaker. You can adjust the volume here. Now there's always a headset and these, as you can see, are very clean. Judging by how new this place is, it's probably brand new. Okay, that's enough of a tour. Let me be a gamer boy and play some video games. I'm gonna play some League of Legends. My username is Donkatsu and I like to play as Veigar because he's kind of like me. He has like a lot of darkness in him, but he's also the kind of character that can continue to grow powerful endlessly for as long as he works hard and does not give up. I am getting a little thirsty. Maybe I'll get myself something to drink for now. What you gotta do is do this 먹거리 주문, which means food order. I'm gonna order a Monster Energy. Let me use my credit card. Oh, this wasn't intended, but they gave me a Monster Energy for free. Guys, it is Korea at the end of the day. I gotta take advantage of my pretty privilege. Since I've gotten a little busy with YouTube, I haven't been playing a lot of video games recently, but I can't deny that it's super fun, especially when you win. Oh, this is great. I really showed it to them. I must say though, as somebody who grew up coming to PC bang with a bunch of friends, there's a sense of loneliness when I come to a PC bang alone. Maybe I can make some new friends here. Let me try talking to someone. Today, I'll prove to you guys that K-drama is real. Now, this is not a recommended behavior, but let me try to talk to another person that came alone. Okay, everyone's here as a group except for this one person that I found. I found a girl that's here by herself. Let me go try talking to her. Hopefully, she doesn't find it creepy. Oh my god, this feels like one of those trash pickup artist videos. If it's okay with you, can I play a few games with you? Oh, sure, sure. By the way, are you a YouTuber? Yes, but I don't watch a lot of videos. Oh, really? But it's my first time doing something like this. You know how to play Valorant, right? You're here alone, right? Yes. You're sitting in the middle of a couple. Oh, because it's spacious. I'll sit next to you. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. Can I film you? Yes, yes, yes. I think you're pretty good at games. If you finish that game, together? Oh, good, good. You don't mind if I come out, right? Yes, I don't mind at all. Actually, I'm on Twitch anyway. Do you have a lot of followers? No, no, no, no, I don't know anyone. Can you show me your ID later? Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, I'll let you know. But wait a minute. Ah! It's in English, so it's for foreign viewers. Oh, in English? I don't know if it'll be fun to watch. Oh, in English, too. Oh, YouTube? Yes, YouTube is in English. For my viewers, can you try to speak in English then? Oh, yeah, of course, of course. Okay, okay, let's do that, okay? I know there's a whole genre of like Korean girls speaking in English. And people are like, oh my god, those girls are so cute. Really? I hope so. You hope so? Yeah, I hope so. She's having a hard time logging in. I changed all my passwords. Oh, talking about passwords. Have you ever gotten your account hacked in a PC bang? So many times. When I was an elementary school student, I spent a lot of money for MapleStory. I didn't play that game for a while, but I wanted to play that again. So I just logged in again, and all of my items were gone. At the time, I was just an elementary school student. How did you get it hacked? Maybe I just clicked some weird homepage thing. It just popped up everywhere, you know? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like you should have used Square Access disposable browser. Oh, what is that? I'm going to naturally introduce her to my sponsor. So Square Access is a Chrome extension. Chrome extension. And you can use it to use their disposable browser, which is kind of like a web browser within your web browser, and everything that happens in that browser stays private. So even if you clicked on a funny link like you did, nothing would have happened to you if you were using Square Access. That sounds really good. Your reaction is really great. I feel like I need to pay you too. All right, thank you for your hard work. Let's play some games. I never expected to monetize my new friend in a PC bang, but I did. I'll be honest, I couldn't play this game too well because I haven't played for a long time. But I can see why a lot of people like to come here with a friend. It's like the experience becomes even more fun. No, no! Have you ever come to an internet cafe like with a boyfriend? Oh, yes. Yes. Sadly, yes. So many times. Are you like into boys that are gamers? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah, I really like it because I also really love to play games. Oh, so like being a gamer is like a plus for you? Kind of, but not too much. Not addictive, you know? I also play FIFA. I want to play that game with my boyfriend. My future boyfriend. Your future boyfriend? Yeah, I hope so. I feel like a lot of Korean guys like gamer girls too, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard it. I think it would be an understatement to say that I had fun. She was such an awesome person to play video games with. Oh, so have you gotten hacked of your account before? Oh, have I gotten my account hacked before? I have actually. Let me tell you the whole story. It was back when I was a sixth grader. Yes. Back then, there was this game called 바람의 나라. Oh, yes, yes. That one is really popular. Yeah, and I was really into the game. And so was my friend, Sanghyun. I still remember his name. Wait, are you guys still friends or...? No, we're not friends anymore. Not after that. So the way it happened was really simple. He sent me this file and it was called speedhack.exe. You know what those are, right? I know, I know. It's like one of those programs that you use. It makes your character move faster. It's like a cheating program. But I was going to use that to level up faster. And he sent it to me. I was like, oh god, Sanghyun, thank you. Yeah. And I launched it. Yeah. It did nothing. And he's like, oh, that must have not worked for you. Yeah. Little did I know. It was actually a keylogger. So whatever I was typing, it was being shared with Sanghyun. Oh my god. So he got my password and I didn't know. So the next morning, when I logged into my character, I was butt naked. But speaking of a suspicious file, when you open a file like that, you can use the disposable file viewer in Square X, which is this function where you can launch a program within their virtual system. So it's like you can open the file, but in someone else's PC. Kind of like asking someone else to open the package that my content bombed. Yeah, it's exactly like that. If you have something like that, you don't want to open it yourself. You want your neighbor to open it, right? So did you still friend with Sanghyun after he stole all of your items from Barame Nara? Actually, I had my turn for revenge too. So after one year, Barame Nara, it wasn't popular anymore. The new popular game was Ragnarok. Do you know the game? Yeah, I know it. Oh, it used to be so fun. Yeah. But I was kind of a geeky kid and I was pretty good with computer. I had Ragnarok zeny generator. Like it was like money generator. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dot exe. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And an Excel file. Yeah. You can program the Excel file in a way that it opens another file. And I named that Excel file how to use. So that's how I got his Ragnarok account. Oh, and then you stole everything? No, I didn't steal everything. I actually stole little by little. So for like three months, he was like my item collecting bot. Now, if he had Square X installed, then he would have known that the Excel sheet was programmed to open another program and he would have never been my personal item collector. That is awesome. Well, thank you so much for helping me explain things. Now we can get some food. It's time to eat. I'm hungry too. You can just order anything you want. Really? Anything. It kind of depends on which PC bang you go to. But this one seemed to have a really impressive food menu. So I just couldn't help but order a little too much. How are they making it? That's my question. It's on me. I never ever ordered like that this much in PC bang. Let's take a moment to see how they're making the food. When I ordered, there were three people working in the kitchen. One of them being the owner. And they were actually cooking the food. Like their tonkatsu was actually deep fried instead of getting microwaved. And they were making all kinds of food with this ramen making machine, which I thought was really cool. The kitchen environment was extremely clean, so props to the owner. Regardless of the culture, all foods must be made in a hygienic environment, you know? By the way, you don't have to pay for the food at the counter like I'm doing here. They usually bring the car reader to your table. Within a few minutes after I ordered the food, one of the workers brought the food to my seat. Well, I hope this is enough for the two of us. Oh my god, that looks so good. Yeah, they cook so well. I feel like the part-timers here, like the people that work here, they're really cute, don't you think? I think normally, Korean PC bang, they really try to hire cute girls. Yeah, I noticed that too. Every time I go to a PC bang, it's usually like a young, really cute girl working there. Because most of customers are like, you know, like boy and guy. They want to come back for more. A hundred percent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's possible, I think. She probably has no idea that I'm one of those guys. I want your review first. It tastes like a homemade. Really? Tastes way better than the fast food. Way better than the fast food. I guess you could argue that these are fast food as well. But my god, they're really great fast food. Oh my god, it looks so good. I'm glad you like it. That ddeokgatsu looks so good too. Yeah. This food quality is so good. Oh, it's so great. I might be biased. I think Korean PC bang has the best food out of all PC bang. That is true. Yeah. Some dumplings, some rice cakes. This is definitely different from restaurant food. It's casual, simple, but delicious. In Korea, even if you're a billionaire, you know what an instant noodle tastes like. True, true, true. That's about the only thing that I have in common with the billionaires. And actually, all of these foods are not that much pricey. This is so good. Yeah? Yeah. Oh, you're drinking the soup too. Of course, of course. This is so good. One of my favorite food is ramen. Yeah? I usually like ramen. Sometimes I eat ramen every day too. There's just something really pleasant about eating food at the PC bang. So can I try it? Yeah, of course. Depending on the PC bang, sometimes their food is like okay. Yeah, okay. Just okay. Yeah, sometimes their food is okay. Sometimes they're really good. I feel like this place has really good food. Yeah, really good. The best I've tried so far. Yeah. I think it's the best. I'm really happy with the food. Yeah, all of these foods are really good. Like you can play game and eating food together. With a cute Korean girl that plays video games too. Yeah. Random question. Do you like anime? I saw you playing Fortnite and your character was Gojo. I love anime. I'm a weeb. I just traveled Japan because of Jujutsu Kaisen. A lot of people told me that I look like one character in that show. Which character? Take a guess. Dessert? Yeah. So after chatting over the food, we went back to playing a little more games. And since friends help each other and she's my friend now. Can I talk about Square X just a little more? They're my sponsor. Oh yeah, sure. There's a function that you might like too. Using their smart integration for Gmail, you know how when you read the email, the sender can know whether you read it or not? So if you have like an obsessed ex-boyfriend that's sending you emails and you're curious to see what they're saying, you would be curious, right? Yeah, of course, of course. Then you can just right click on it, know exactly what they're saying, and then choose to ignore them. And while we're talking about emails, they also have the disposable email. Which is this instant email that you can make and you can receive emails to it. So that's how you can use it too. What else is there? That's a great question. I think that's all we need to talk about. Let's play some more games since we're here anyway. Valorant? Yes, let's go. I feel like I'm better than most friends though. I got a little help from her for my own benefit, but I also stuck around to have fun with her too. Oh, there was a lot of games. I think I have to go now, but it was great meeting you. We should play again. Yeah, we should play again next time. Yeah, of course. Can I get your Discord? Oh, my Discord? Yeah. Oh, not my phone number. Yeah, just Discord. Yeah, okay, okay. I like how she draws the line. A part of me died in that moment, but she's looking out for herself and I respect that. After all, some people think I am creepy. All right, I follow you now. Oh, okay. Okay, it was nice meeting you. All right, thank you so much. Have a great day. Have a great day too. Thank you. All right, that was a lot of fun. Huge shout out to the owner of this beautiful internet cafe. I hope the business does well. Oh, it's raining outside now. Okay, that was a lot of fun. I played a ton of video games, made a new friend, and had a lot of food. Hope you guys enjoyed this video. And again, huge shout out to Squarex. Guys, use the link in description and get your Squarex. Don't get your personal information stolen like I did. In fact, I'm gonna have to message my new friend to make sure she downloads it too. If you guys got some time after downloading Squarex, please go ahead and watch my other videos too. Thanks guys.