South Korean Kim Dong-hwan has been offered Americanvisa as an “internationally recognized athlete.” His sport? Starcraft.
Kim is not the first Starcraft athlete to receive such an offer, and Starcraft experts aren’t the only ones to receive these offers: “The US willingness to reward talented international athletes with entry to the country has helped make its baseball and basketball leagues the envy of the world, and immigration experts say it is easierto get a world-class athlete into the US legally than a brilliant computer scientist.”
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