The Korean professional Overwatch scene is now down two players after their accusations against a teenage female player were refuted by both Blizzard Korea and the player herself.

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Over in Seoul, Korea, 70 people competed against each other in what's been dubbed as a "Space-Out Competition."

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Are you excited for the return of Penny Dreadful? Showtime released a trailer for Season 3 today over at their YouTube channel. Enjoy! Penny Dreadful returns May 1st.

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A group of female peace activists, collectively known as WomenCrossDMZ, led by Christine Ahn, founder of Women De-Militarize the Zone, marked the 70th Anniversary year of Korea's division into North and South by crossing the DMZ between North to South in peace today. The group was joined by feminist activist, Gloria Steinem, and Nobel Peace laureates, Leymah Gbowee and Mairead Maguire.

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2015 is the Year of the Sheep, so it only makes sense that the world's first Sheep Cafe should be open for business. If ewe live in or near Seoul, South Korea (or are on the lamb), you can check out the Thanks Nature Cafe. Anyways, out of shear kindness, I won't ram anymore sheep puns down your throat.

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Korean actress and singer Clara just released a music video for her new song, "Gwiyomi Song 2," which (obv) has a series of dance moves to go along with it. With literally no explanation whatsoever, Stan Lee appears in the video, doing the Gwiyomi dance. Does it matter why, really?

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Hey, nerds. In, "Why wasn't this a thing when I wanted to go to college?" news, South Korea's Chung-Ang university has enacted a new policy to accept pro gamers to their Department of Sports Science just like any other athlete, which could help them get into the highly selective school. Gamers, it might be time to start learning Korean.

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For the Xbox One, Microsoft pulled out all the stops and developed an incredibly powerful version of the original Kinect, and pretty much no one cared, because they just want it to be $100 cheaper like the PlayStation 4. All that technology won't go to waste, though, because a South Korean programmer put it to work on the nation's border.

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If you count yourself a devoted reader of all things Geekosystem, then you no doubt know that among our other self-imposed journalistic duties, one of them involves the constant and dedicated coverage of developments coming out of North Korea -- whether the news be legitimate, comedic, or -- typically -- a unique amalgamation that skates that fine line of being both. In keeping with this trend, South Korean officials have reported that Google chairman Eric Schmidt is scheduled to visit North Korea on a clandestine humanitarian mission, with the company itself pretty tight-lipped on the details surrounding the reason for this unorthodox trip. And as far as we know, it ain't a vacation.

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Yeah, hey, thanks a lot, everybody. Due to your insatiable appetite for all things insipid and obnoxiously viral on the Internet, the total number views for South Korean rapper -- and we use that term loosely -- PSY's "Gangnam Style" music video has skyrocketed to over one billion views and will likely continue to grow unless we as a people actually stop sharing it with everyone and their grandmother. Just so you know, pop culture is a part of our legacy, and legacies have a habit of outlasting the people that spawned it. Now future generations will recognize us for our inexplicable admiration for a man that enjoyed dancing like a horse.

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Continuing their proud nation's great tradition of being simultaneously wackier and sadder than all other nations, North Korean archaeologists have announced the discovery of what they claim is the lair of a unicorn. What, you may ask, could lead them to believe they had stumbled on such an incredible find? According to the country's state run news service "A rectangular rock carved with words "Unicorn Lair" stands in front of the lair." I think you'll agree -- pretty hard to argue with evidence like that.

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There's no good way to explain the sudden spike in the share price of Korean semiconductor manufacturer DI. Over three weeks, the company has rocketed from around $1.80 to $5.12 a share. The shift is baffling, considering that there's been no change financially for the company otherwise. It's not like they unveiled some amazing contraption that might drive such growth. DI's main shareholder, however, just so happens to be Park Won-ho. He's the father of Park Jae-sang -- as in PSY, the performer behind the immensely popular "Gangnam Style" song.

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Historical research out of South Korea suggests that male sex hormones may be to blame for the shorter lives of men across cultures. The evidence for this? The shocking longevity of several centuries of Korean eunuchs. Researchers combing through the meticulously detailed birth and death records of the Korean Chosun Dynasty found that eunuchs  -- castrated men who worked as servants at court -- were a staggering 130 times more likely to live to see 100 than men in the modern age.

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NC Soft's Blade & Soul is the hot new game in Korea, with its open beta topping the PC Bang charts at 20.35%. Diablo III's iron grip on Korean gamers seems to have weakened as it drops to 17.74%, the first time it went sub-20% in 5 weeks. So is this the end of Diablo III? Not very likely.

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On February 21, Korean National Police Agency teamed up with Rovio Entertainment to create a campaign in which Rovio's iconic Angry Birds can be used as a sort of anger management in a campaign that aims to prevent violence in schools. That's right, Korea thinks that a video game -- even one with the word "Angry" in the title -- can actually help prevent violence. I wish I could say more of my own countrymen were equally enlightened.

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I'd say that an indoor cycling gymnastics sport is weird, and that having a championship for it is even weirder, but this "sport" comes from Korea--a place where StarCraft is more the national sport than anything else.

(via BuzzFeed)

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Doggy Poo Story is a 2003 claymation movie (well, we hope it's clay) based on a Children's Literature Award-winning book by Korean author Jung-Saeng Kwon. The photo above, spotted in Seoul's Maebang Station, advertises a musical based on the series, with the tagline "Nothing God made is useless."

While the title might seem to promise -- well, be -- one massive poop joke, it's actually a rather existential story about one piece of dog excrement's quest to find its higher purpose.

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