Alarming report: Black hawk mines says “online gaming worsen”

[harrygrant]

“We take
responsibility in our action; things like this can be avoided if all gamers
know their limit and how to make our hobby much fun and enjoyable”

From the words itself, addiction, imagine how
bad can possibly be? Like many other
addiction like alcoholic addiction and drug addiction, gaming addiction is as
serious. Many have lost their jobs,
their spouses and even their lives for playing online games. They are literally living in the virtual
world.

In late July, a 21-year-old online-gaming
addict was found dead in his home in Inchon, South Korea. He’d played intensely
since graduating from high school, rarely sleeping or leaving his room,
according to family members. In 2005 a
28-year-old man collapsed and died from organ failure after playing for 50
hours straight. He had apparently just lost his job because of his
online-gaming habit. Both incidents
prime suspect is online gaming.

A gaming shutdown law is now being implemented
in Korea where it aims to demolish the addiction

The country thought of another strategy to
abolish the online game addiction or at least lessen it. “Cooling Off” system is introduced; this is
to regulate the students of the amount of time they spend in playing online
games within the 24 hours. Soon the
video games addicts in South Korea will have limited hours to play online games.

Cooling off will work like this, their games
i\will be switch off after two hours, where they will be given ten minutes
to rest, and then they can only log
again in once for a maximum two hours in the following 24 hours.

The newest strategy of Korea is this new law
where allow parents to communicate with online game providers and set time
limits for their children's online gaming.
This comes as South Korea struggles to deal with rampant Internet
addiction among young people in South Korea.
And only shows how serious this online games addiction truly is. Online game addiction is not a laughing
matter; it is as deadly as alcohol and drug addiction.