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Choose your own adventure books were part of my childhood. I'm glad this website exists. Thank you to all the authors here.

North or South? ;)

Hello. I am from south korea .

Hello. I am from north korea .

Everyone knows you are from the Banana Republic.

Welcome to the site.  Did you have a favorite CYOA book?

Hello. My favorite book here is Ground Zero by EndMaster. It has a fallout 1 vibe to it (my favorite game) . 

I meant from your childhood, but Ground Zero is a good one. :)

Oh I see. My favorite Cyoa book is Return to Atlantis. I don't remember much of what it was about but I remember being mesmerized by it. 

I don't think I read that one specifically.  Or, if I did, it was just during school library time; I certainly never owned it.  I keep telling myself I'm going to order the books, bit by bit, and read them all.

Were they translated into Korean, or did you read them in English?

I read them in English. I used to live in America for a while. The libraries are so much better on average than those in Korea...I miss those big libraries.

I have to admit, I don't know very much about South Korea.  Yes, big libraries are wonderful things, though I suppose a lot of people don't use them as much anymore since the advent of e-books and sites like Wikipedia.

Sadly, I have not much good things to say about my country . Although the internet is fast and the educational system is arguably better , there is too much stress imposed upon the average student. I have to retake the Korean version of SAT to get into a top tier university. It's hard but thankfully reading books here really helps with the stress .

Probably a lot of stress in general because of the country to the north.  Fast internet is good.  And as much as SAT tests are hard, it's a common way to measure fitness for the Universities, something that I often have mixed feelings about.  Anyhow, are you going to school in Korea, or abroad?

I plan on studying in Korea . I lived here for a while now so i've become adjusted to the culture here. University is much cheaper also . 

One of my friends has a brother studying Computer Science at KAIST and to me, the amount of work you're expected to do seems incredible! Actually there are quite a few South Koreans studying here at Oxford who I know.

Welcome to the site!

@spartacusthegreat Come talk Korean at this kid. It's like the one party trick you know.

Does @someone's name actually do anything?

@Mynoris

It sends you a notification that you've been tagged in a post.

Whoa!  It actually does.  I wondered why people bothered to put the @ sign in the forums.  Thank you for the demonstration; I appreciate it.  (No, I'm not being sarcastic; if someone had told me without the example I would have asked someone to do it anyhow.)

Welcome to the site.

Welcome.