For this episode of Korean Next Door, we spent a day with Park Young-seo, a manager at a "PC bang," or internet cafe, in Seoul's Jongno District. When she graduated from high school and decided it was time to find a job, the PC bang was the first thing that came to mind — she had loved games since she was a kid, so the logic was airtight. At 22, she became a manager at the Red Force PC bang in Jongno, a joint venture between Nongshim and BNM Company. Follow her through a shift and a few things become clear. The first is the food. This PC bang offers roughly 100 items counting drinks, and the manager is the one cooking all of it and carrying it out to the floor. The second is the hardware. These are close to the best consumer rigs money can buy, and here they rent for less than $2 an hour. There's a history behind that math. When Korea's economy collapsed in the late 1990s, the government bet its recovery on infrastructure and poured money into a nationwide broadband network. The country came out the other side of that crisis wired for some of the fastest internet on Earth. It arrived