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A game of microns

Much of the world has spent the past month watching twenty-two people contest a ball across pitches throughout the North American continent. We have been watching a different contest, played out in Icheon and Pyeongtaek in South Korea, where the field of play is three-quarters of a millimetre high and the trophy is a share of the fastest-growing large market in the world economy.

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