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South Korea Announces Daily MMO Blackouts For Youths

Posted by Soulskill on from the probably-just-making-more-time-for-starcraft dept.

eldavojohn writes "GamePolitics reports that South Korea's Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism has announced two new policies that will force underage gamers to pick a six-hour block of time (midnight-6 AM,1-7 AM, or 2-8 AM) where they will not be able to play 19 online role-playing games. While it targets most popular MMORPGs, some popular games like Lineage were left off the list."

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  1. Re:Registration Numbers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    It refers to the Korean residency registration number which all Korean citizens have. It's practically a requirement to sign up for any online site in Korea. It also has the handy effect of blocking any foreigner registration numbers from ever signing up for Korean services.

  2. Re:Stupid by compro01 · · Score: 3, Informative

    IIRC, registering for those online games in Korea requires your nation ID #, so that won't work.

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