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[A news article about a "race" run between Korea's only S-rank Tae-gun Lee and his new partner Hye-jin Kim. They cleared six whole dungeons between the two of them, each of them soloing three, back-to-back, within a few hours. They were apparently competing to see which of them managed to clear all three first, and Hye-jin Kim won the race. There is a video of her waiting for him outside the portal of his last dungeon, huddled between space heaters to deal with her hypothermia backlash, grinning like the cat that got the canary, followed by a zoom into Tae-gun's face.]
August 4, 2036
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So I think this is going to be a one off, and if it's not, it should be.
yeah absolutely, none of my wistful sighs about dungeon speedrunning tournaments are serious
Or. Or. And hear me out. It was. A publicity. Stunt.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It was cool and impressive, they deserve the publicity from it.
Or. Or. And hear me out. It was. A publicity. Stunt.
The main thing I know about Korea was someone describing their society (paraphrasing) "treat formality like a competitive sport that they intend to win", but regardless. Dungeons are the sort of thing you have to be serious and not deceive international security institutions. This is likely an engineered situation, but I don't think they outright lied about the Espers clearing the dungeons. Still, this is in poor taste.