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S. Korea's Stress-Driven Online Gaming Addiction

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the escape-via-mouse dept.

techsoldaten writes "The Washington Post is running an article about the ever-increasing problem of videogame addiction in South Korea. From the article: 'The situation has grown so acute that 10 South Koreans -- mostly teenagers and people in their twenties -- died in 2005 from game addiction-related causes, up from only two known deaths from 2001 to 2004, according to government officials.'"

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  1. Survey by porkThreeWays · · Score: 5, Funny

    When American gamers were asked to comment about their South Korean counterparts, 86% responded "gogo = boot"

    The last 14% just said "no gooks ffa snipers r0xor teh n00bs kekeke k thx~~"

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    If an officer ever threatens to taze you, say you have a pacemaker.
  2. Damnit South Korea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You need to get a job and a girlfriend and move out of my basement!!

    Signed,
    Mrs. Korea