KThxBaiNao No longer with Nexon

The key difference is culture. Korean culture is different from American culture. You cannot copy that.

Is it correct to say that, in Korea, games are seen as another social media? as a platform to interact with real people?

At the same time I would say the rest of the world still sees games as just that, games, something innanimate where their actions have no consecuences or simply don't matter, no matter how many real people are part of it.