To paraphrase from the presentation Tae-Geon Soe (Vice President of the South Korean KOGIA) gave at the German game developers' conference:
Germany is a large market for games, it has a good infrastructure and education system. But it lacks the attitude.
Good call from a country where one in four people play(ed) Lineage, which plans to employ 100,000 people in the games industry this year and for which the promotion of e-sports is of national priority...
For some more impressive info on the South Korean game industry click here.