South Korean Government imposes gaming curfew for teens

[j_garcia]

LOL. Pretty bad when the government has to put their fingers into something like this. Don't these kids have parents?

Video game addiction is a serious problem in Korea, where kids are prone to staying up all night long to play. So the government is disabling internet connections for six hours per night for underage gamers.

The ban won't affect most internet uses, just a blacklist of 19 specific games. The ban will last either from midnight to 6am, 1am to 7am or 2am to 8am, with the time of the blackout up to the user. Furthermore, if you're caught playing an online game for more than six hours straight during the day, your connection will be throttled.

http://gizmodo.com/5515178/south-korea-imposes-midnight-gaming-curfew

 

[Ares]

That is crazy the government telling kids no more all night gaming sessions, good question where are the parents in all this? I didn't pull all night gaming sessions till I left home at 16, before that the only thing that kept me from doing that was my dad's foot landing in a certain part of my anatomy.

 

[MidnightSensi]

Now they can go out and buy drugs and tag walls with all the normal kids.

 

[j_garcia]

Now they can go out and buy drugs and tag walls with all the normal kids.

The government didn't think that far ahead.

 

[Fenix]

Is your dad Red?

That is really stupid. There were days when I was on summer vacation that my friends and I would have lan parties and play games all night, sometimes we would start in the afternoon and go all night. Sometimes on the weekends as well.

However if they are doing it all the time, then the parents need to intervene and start doing stuff with their children.

 

[Ares]

Is your dad Red?

That is really stupid. There were days when I was on summer vacation that my friends and I would have lan parties and play games all night, sometimes we would start in the afternoon and go all night. Sometimes on the weekends as well.

However if they are doing it all the time, then the parents need to intervene and start doing stuff with their children.

No he's worse, that is why I left at 16.

 

[lsiberian]

No he's worse, that is why I left at 16.

That sucks. I'm glad you got out of there. Gaming isn't that bad, but I do think some reasonable limits for school nights are warranted.