South Korea BANNED Video Game Playing For Those Under 16

Women ruin everything.

Not sure how they would be able to monitor that.

wouldn't it be better if they stopped having an education system with drove teens to suicide?

no. slippery slope. Banning one thing just makes it easier to ban the next and the next and the next thing and then you realize you have lost your freedom.

So how do you handle video game addiction?

Video game addiction is another fake "crisis."

you don't. if parents learned to control their kids and set limits for them then we wouldn't have this problem. I would think that this would be much easier to handle than drug addiction if parents started training their children when they were young. but they won't........

Video game addiction is not a fake crisis in South Korea, R6.

I'm with R2. Reminds me of those silly, unenforceable laws they used to pass back in the olden days, for example in Victorian England, it was illegal for a married couple to do any sex position besides missionary.

Perhaps the idea behind it is trying to send a message through the act itself (of passing the law).

I'm so convinced by a report from Anonymous HQ, r8.

Never understood the appeal of video games. Beyond playing a few rounds of Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat at the arcade, the novelty quick wore off past the tween years.

No one wants to pass any laws, no one wants to discipline their kids and they want the iPad to raise them. We're pretty well fucked.

I thought Korean parents were strict?

Google is free, idiot @R10. I've been following this story for years. That's just the first non-Korean reference I found.