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Game-Addicted South Korean Teens Recover Boot Camp Style

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by Tim Turi on January 18, 2011 at 02:45 PM
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What do you do if you're a parent in South Korea who is fed up with your child's StarCraft II marathons? Send them to boot camp, where they endure every trial the average soldier faces; endurance sessions in harsh conditions, endless exercise, and moderated technology use.

All Voices has a photos series of punished students who have missed school, received poor grades, or lack motivation in life because of video game addiction. The entire purpose of the rigid course is to train the teens to respect themselves and find more ambition in pursuing creative endeavors.

Kang Han-Sol, a 15-year-old boy in the program, said “My mom forced me to take this course because I have played video games too much. I hope this course would better me, so I could quit playing and give more focus on studying”.

All my parents ever told me to do was go play outside...

[via Game Politics]

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  • by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 03:26 PM

    Brutal! these kids look like they're having a rough time of it

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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 03:33 PM

    i'm just picturing little tim turi at a boot camp

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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 03:43 PM
    There is a major difference between games being your favorite hobby and games being your whole life. The GI employees have lives. They don't spend all their time playing games. Just because they have a career about video games doesn't make them totally absorbed. But this...this is just completely wrong. I don't get how someone can make video games the center of their whole lives.
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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 04:05 PM

    So they have the kids lay down and hold their legs up in the air in different weather conditions? lol.  Nah, fu*k all that.  I'd just as soon play a game where I'm a game-addicted south korean kid whose parents force them to go to boot camp- now that might be fun =)

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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 04:14 PM

    I lol at this.

  • by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 04:16 PM

    is it torture or boot camp? these kids look like there dying

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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 04:24 PM

    How is this not child abuse?

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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 04:31 PM
    And they probably don't even play as much as many American kids...
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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 04:38 PM
    South Korea Fat Kids. I thought America had all the fat kids? Their parents probably told them it was "Video Game Camp" to get them there and excited about it.
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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 04:49 PM

    wut the sh*t................

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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 04:53 PM
    That is pretty ridiculous. Sometimes I think that parents just blame video games as the source of all their child's problems, when, more likely than not, it is the parent's fault that the child is not successful. People don't go to labor camps when they have an alcohol or drug problem, they go to rehab, if video games are an "addiction" why should they be treated any differently.
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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 05:13 PM
    Why don't we have something like this in the U.S.?
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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 05:17 PM

    When I was that age, if I played too much my parents just took the console away.

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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 05:21 PM
    Well once again here I am thinking to myself "Thank God I don't live anywhere like that"
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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 05:43 PM
    That why you get a job and get your own place.. But is it really that painful to lift your legs up while on your back??
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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 06:28 PM

    Wow, its amazing that even in Korea parents have lost the ability to discipline their children. Sad, just sad.....

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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 06:38 PM

    Well, at least it's better than eating raw dogs.

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    by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 06:52 PM

    so does this mean we also torture alcoholics now?

  • by Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 07:03 PM

    I just go outside for a jog and a smoke whe my mom bitches at me lol.

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