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Gamer's Death Sparks Concern in S.Korea

Thu Aug 25, 7:41 AM ET

SEOUL, South Korea - Keyboard and mouse in hand, he battled until nearly his last breath. The death of Lee, a 28-year-old man identified only by his last name who passed away earlier this month after nearly 50 straight hours of playing online computer games, has
South Korea concerned about the health of the millions of gamers in the world's most wired country.
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Many of South Korea's 17 million gamers regularly stroll into Internet cafes, the $1-per-hour hangout popular among young South Koreans, and camp out in front of monitors to play for hours — and even sometimes days or longer.

"I've seen people who play games for months, just briefly going home for a change of clothing, taking care of all their eating and sleeping here," said Jun Mung-gyu, 27, who runs an Internet cafe in southeastern Seoul.

More than 70 percent of South Korea's population of 48 million uses the Internet, and the country has the highest per-capita rate of broadband connections in the world. With all that access has come the rising problem of Internet addiction.

8/26/2005 5:47:04 AM

I'm worried about one of my friends who might have this problem

8/26/2005 8:04:16 AM

Hopefully he will die too.

8/26/2005 8:08:29 AM

Soon games ratings will be based on the number of people who die playing it.

"Dude, you gota buy WoW, it got 5 outa 5 gamers."

8/26/2005 8:15:24 AM

What would the second number indicate?

8/26/2005 8:30:56 AM

The number of gamers that died from the test subjects.

8/26/2005 8:35:03 AM

WELL THAT TESTING COMPANY IS GETTING SUED!

8/26/2005 8:39:02 AM

Omg, you know the games gota be good. He just had a heart attack, and all he did was enter his name.

8/26/2005 8:40:19 AM

pass that shit

8/26/2005 10:50:19 AM