Korean Gamers Drop Dead
Filed under: Electronic Entertainment
I have a soft spot in my groin for South Korea. It’s the home of some of the hottest girls this planet has ever produced. But I’m hoping that one of their greatest exports, online gaming, doesn’t leave them all dying like flies in their rooms.
In South Korea, IHT reports:
Some play themselves to death. Last year, the deaths of at least seven people were attributed to excessive game- playing. In August, a 28-year-old man died after nearly 50 straight hours of playing online games. In December, a 38-year-old day worker collapsed and died at an Internet café; his logs showed that he had played for 417 hours in his last 20 days. There are private telephone emergency services that dispatch ambulances for children who collapse while gaming or refuse to come out of their rooms, where they remain glued to online games or threaten violence at intervening parents.
Wow. Something about this tells me it’s just a taste of things to come, especially when high-speed Internet becomes commonplace. I understand the addiction; I’ve been an avid gamer since the IBM XT. But this? Come on.
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June 17th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
For a while there, I was gonna protest that when you wrote that Korea is home for the hottest chicks in town. Ha! You should be here to find out the truth.
As for the gaming deaths. Well, Koreans basically don’t have a social life outside of office, schools, etc… Playing computer games is part of their daily existence. They are virtually hooked on computers as a means of socializing. Isn’t that kinda pathetic?
November 27th, 2006 at 2:13 am
[...] I have to admit, though, that I have yet to hear something that’s been happening with Koreans. [...]
January 21st, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I’m with deity, I spent a year and a half there for recon and I saw very few attractive girls, most were about 20 years older than me, and the hot ones I did meet were already MARRIED, they still marry at 15 there, sorry fellas mail order brides aside you won’t get it there. Also they don’t have much of a life other than working, some are athletic, but most that we hear about aren’t.