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atwood
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 Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 3:20 pm Post subject: South Korea Wants to Regulate Online Gaming Like Drugs |
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http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/10/30/south-korea-wants-to-regulate-online-gaming-like-drugs-and-alcohol/
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| Earlier this month, South Korean lawmakers proposed a bill that regulates online gaming in a similar fashion to drugs and alcohol. As local news reported, the country's Ministry of Health and Welfare took a step further [ko] towards the restriction last weekend by designating the online game as one of the four major addictive elements [ko] which merit state-level control. |
We can't have time taken away from studying. You must follow the right way.
School, in all its forms, is obviously the most important, by far, experience in Koreans' lives. I sometimes think Korea is just a big middle school and that's the cause of the social dysfunction here. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Just great. Now teenage smoking and drinking will increase eventually. This will hit hard for the young adults. Even electronic games had never been banned in the Soviet Union. |
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happiness
Joined: 04 Sep 2010
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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More time in Hagwons = more time for English students. Good for NET's, and the schools will have to get NETs back into the school system.
That said, it wont happen, I have a feeling as much as parents dont like games, they may defend the kids right to play.
Also, the kids do smartphone games mostly now, no?
How can they stop those? |
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Squire
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Location: Jeollanam-do
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:16 pm Post subject: |
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This isn't a good country for young people  |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 6:18 pm Post subject: |
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| My low level students spend massive amounts of time gaming. It's not healthy. (And as a minor, they don't have the right to waste their time playing violent games.) The Korean government is right. I support them in this. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2013 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I doubt this would have any effect in the home. I assume the intention is to restrict kids from hanging out in PC bangs for endless hours, and they're right in doing so. |
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chungbukdo
Joined: 22 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| My low level students spend massive amounts of time gaming. It's not healthy. (And as a minor, they don't have the right to waste their time playing violent games.) The Korean government is right. I support them in this. |
The government should regulate everything, especially the amount of food we eat, because many more people are damaging their bodies with excessive or non-nutritious food than games. In fact, most people will die of diseases related to their poor diets or obesity, and very few will die of using games for pleasure. I support living in a dictatorship where government officials tell me what food to eat at gunpoint because I could potentially do something unhealthy under freedom. |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 4:41 am Post subject: |
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| chungbukdo wrote: |
| World Traveler wrote: |
| My low level students spend massive amounts of time gaming. It's not healthy. (And as a minor, they don't have the right to waste their time playing violent games.) The Korean government is right. I support them in this. |
The government should regulate everything, especially the amount of food we eat, because many more people are damaging their bodies with excessive or non-nutritious food than games. In fact, most people will die of diseases related to their poor diets or obesity, and very few will die of using games for pleasure. I support living in a dictatorship where government officials tell me what food to eat at gunpoint because I could potentially do something unhealthy under freedom. |
But that would put all the mom and pop chicken shacks and pizza joints out of business. We can't have that! |
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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| This coupled with government wide blocks of porn (particularly foreign sites) is pretty grim. Are they trying to drive even more people to suicide? |
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World Traveler
Joined: 29 May 2009
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 10:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I think it's cool that the government protects minors from bad things (such as pornography, alcohol, and cigarettes). I'm really surprised you guys disagree. |
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blm
Joined: 11 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:02 pm Post subject: Re: South Korea Wants to Regulate Online Gaming Like Drugs |
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| atwood wrote: |
Earlier this month, South Korean lawmakers proposed a bill that regulates online gaming in a similar fashion to drugs and alcohol. |
So online gaming will now be available everywhere?
In the subway and even delivered to your home.
I might try it. Much better that having to go to a PC Bang. |
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fermentation
Joined: 22 Jun 2009
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:17 pm Post subject: |
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| World Traveler wrote: |
| I think it's cool that the government protects minors from bad things (such as pornography, alcohol, and cigarettes). I'm really surprised you guys disagree. |
I'm surprised they don't do more. Korean kids don't spend enough time exercising so why aren't they forcing kids to exercise more? Or eat healthier? Or get enough sleep? |
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Fox
Joined: 04 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2013 11:23 pm Post subject: |
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| fermentation wrote: |
| Korean kids don't spend enough time exercising so why aren't they forcing kids to exercise more? |
Is this not the point of gym class and expanded sports programs?
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| Or eat healthier? |
School lunches in Korea are quite healthy and the students (at least at my school) are made to eat everything on their tray.
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| Or get enough sleep? |
Is this not the point of limiting hagwon hours of operation?
I'm not sure if you were being sarcastic or not, but it seems like the government is already concerned with everything you've listed here and trying to take steps within its power to pursue those ends. |
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Who's Your Daddy?
Joined: 30 May 2010
Location: Victoria, Canada.
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| Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| Korea has so many laws with so little enforcement. |
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El Bandito
Joined: 07 Oct 2013
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| Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2013 12:20 am Post subject: |
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| Squire wrote: |
| This isn't a good country for young people |
No Country For Young Men? |
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