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VC · Joined: 10 Feb 2003

"The recent deaths of several people directly or indirectly related to excessive playing of computer games have raised fresh concerns about Korea��s flourishing gaming industry. On Dec. 8, a 38-year-old man died suddenly after playing Internet games for 20 straight days at an Internet cafe, sustaining himself solely on instant noodles. On Nov. 20, a high school student died while playing online games for nine hours at home, adding his name to a bleak statistic that also includes the death on June 14 of a four-month-old infant who suffocated while her parents were out playing computer games.

"Apparently rare overseas, such cases make frequent headlines in Korea. Why? Experts point to the poor environment of the 'PC bang' or Internet cafes that have mushroomed nationwide. Generally dark and poorly ventilated, they cater to gamers who tend to smoke heavily. The bad air and light can increase the danger of sudden death, experts warn...."

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200512/200512160007.html

Shooter McGavin · Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Location: ROK

Why was a 38 year old man playing games for 20 straight days? Didn't he have a job to go to? If he did not have a job, where'd he get the game/noodle money from? TWENTY DAYS. Unbelievable.

Hater Depot · Joined: 29 Mar 2005

His girlfriend broke up with him halfway through. How can you choose games over pie?

tweeterdj · Joined: 21 Oct 2005 Location: Gwangju

SERIOUSLY!!!!!?????

sitting in a dark room filled with smoke, not blinking, staring at a radioactive screen and only moving your hands, wrists and fingers, eating food with NO nutrition whatsoever for 20 days is BAD FOR YOU?????!!!!!

I think this goes under the category of DUUUHHH!

glad we have such experts to tell us these things...

VanIslander

VanIslander · Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 8:38 pm Post subject:

or not

Eunoia

beekeeper3000 · Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

i must say that even the 4 or so hours a week i spend playing counterstrike have started taking their toll. i'm pretty sure this cold i've had for 3 weeks isn't going away due to poor ventilation and second-hand smoke. however, i will patiently wait for parents to start blaming the game manufacturers for making the games addictive. honestly, if i have to read another one of my kids' journals about fuc*ing maple story i'm gonna choke someone.

Khunopie

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Pak Yu Man · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Location: The Ida galaxy

Twenty days.....bullshit.
The news said 10. Anyways....the guy ate, slept and played 10 days straight.

Lost his girlfriend...boo-hoo. He should have spent a little time online finding another.

bellum99 · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: don't need to know

It is simply a mattter of malnutrition. Lack of calories over a long time combined with exercise leads to heart failure. Your body will begin to burn muscle and the heart is a muscle.
It is not a serious problem....2 deaths in a year. Try researching why half this country has hemroids and stomach cancer (I bet its the kimchi).

ratslash · Joined: 08 May 2003