Sector7G
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 Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2016 6:34 am Post subject: Seoul wants ‘smartphone zombies’ to read road signs |
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From the WaPo...
Seoul wants ‘smartphone zombies’ to read road signs instead.
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Six years ago, less than 4 percent of South Koreans owned a smartphone. Today, that number is 88 percent. That means South Koreans have the highest smartphone ownership rate in the world.
But with great distraction comes great danger. Government surveys have found that millions of South Koreans are "addicted" to smartphone usage, and many more to the Internet in general. According to Korea's Transportation Safety Authority, there were more than 1,000 smartphone-related traffic accidents in 2014, compared with 437 in 2009.
South Koreans have coined terms such as "smartphone zombie" and "human-deer" for the mostly young people who seem to wander obliviously into danger while glued to their screens. |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/21/seoul-wants-smartphone-zombies-to-read-road-signs-instead/?hpid=hp_hp-cards_hp-card-world%3Ahomepage%2Fcard |
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