Sunday, November 18th 2007
South Korea Helps People Addicted to Internet
As one of the strangest nations on earth, Korea is now taking care of youths who have internet addiction. The Jump Up Internet Rescue School, is the first camp of its kind in South Korea destined to help young kids addicted to the Internet. In South Korea, ninety percent of homes connect to cheap, high-speed broadband, online gaming is a professional sport, and social life for the young revolves around the PC as they have practically universal Internet access. Up to 30 percent of South Koreans under 18, or about 2.4 million people, are at risk of Internet addiction, said Ahn Dong-hyun, a child psychiatrist at Hanyang University in Seoul who just completed a three-year government-financed survey of the problem. To address the problem, the government has built a network of 140 Internet-addiction counseling centers, in addition to treatment programs at almost 100 hospitals and, most recently, the Internet Rescue camp, which starts now. Find out more here.
Source:
New York Times
36 Comments on South Korea Helps People Addicted to Internet
I think we are the weirdest people by far, anyone who thinks other wise about the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are complete morons in my book.
So much for the American self-proclaimed title of the enemy and purgers of terrorism.
Just my 2 cents.
Seems the Japan didnt care about that when we, the US, didnt want involved in WWII. They came over here bombing Pearl Harbor and doing Kamikaze runs. They brought it to us. They kept bring it to us, didnt heed our calls to quit and they got punished for it. In my recollection, its the first and only time an Atomic bomb (x2) was used. I dont call that terrorism. Its a pretty skewed view you got there about out history.
However, now a days, we seem to be motivated a bit differently, but thats another discussion.
Back to the subject at hand. Internet addiction (if thats even possible) is hell of a lot better than running with gangs, the mob, shooting up drugs, smoking, etc. I say leave them be. More North Koreans on the internet, less causing problems for the rest of the world. Now if we could get Iran to do that.... :roll:
It would be different if Japan dropped bombs on L.A. and San Fransico.
Anyway, I don't care what these people did, it wasn't justified in my opinion. We shouldn't base our acts on others peoples acts. Stooping to their level isn't the solution.
I'm sure the terrorists attacked us on 9-11 fully believing their actions were justified.
Finally, some people with some brains.
"Who cares if these people are addicted to the internet, leave them be. At least they aren't addicted to a drug like opium or something..."
The internet is an addiction like any other mate; same symptoms, same problems; don't be naive.
We told them we were going to use it and asked them to surrender before we were forced to, but they didn't.
The Atom Bomb was used to END a war, not START one.
Ravenas, if we didn't use the Atom Bomb, we would have ended up storming Mainland Japan. This would have resulted in far more overall deaths. Sure, the Japs might be better off, but what about us? What about other countries aiding us? What about YOU?! There's a very real chance your father/grandfather/great grandfather (maybe even mother/grandmother/great grandmother) would have been involved in storming Japan, and gotten killed. YOU might not be here if it wern't for the Atom Bomb!
As Hat points out, a mainland infantry attack would have been more bloodshed for both sides. The Americans did the right thing.
Anyways, this is great news, computer and internet addiction is very serious, and I'm glad someone's doing something about it, especially for children, before it's too late.
I can't believe anyone would be against it; I suspect anyone who is, is in denial themselves.
I do agree this is a good thing, as was mentioned, addiction is the same in every sense, no matter what the addiction is to; alcohol, tobacco, meth, dope, tabasco sauce, computer hardware, porn, etc.
It's all basically the same, nearly always affecting the person in the same ways, for example:
I could quite possibly be described as addicted to computers, I spend money on hardware, I sepdn nearly all of my free time in front of my computer, I alienate family, etc. these can all be symptoms of addiction. Let's face it, a lot of people here all have the same symptoms. Fair enough, a gaming session that lasts nearly all day, every once in a while isn't going to kill you, but what about people that died after staying up for ~50 hours, on their computers. Hopefully this is a way to stop that happenning again.
On a side note, I'm certain they're not wearing helmets just for walking about, I'm almost certain there's some activity going on, like rock-climbing, as they're all looking up. Hell, if I got sent to a camp like that, and got to do loads of fun stuff like that, that'd be awesome actually.
it was actually on the radio, he said that one way to know how your bones are holding up is when you cut your nails.. if they fall that means your screwed lol.. if they fly than you still have strong bones and you can only absorb so much calcium in one sitting and most supplements for it have to much in it that can be counter active or something like that, especially when mixing it with food.
Sometime between the age of 20 and 24 your bones reach thier max size and as a teen its more important to help your body develop as we all know :P.
Edit: he was saying something about sitting for most of your day, well its being inactive and inactive muscles only get smaller/weaker than if you were more into outdoor type activities, eg.walking.
Just put something in his hand.
At least the majority of their youth are only addicted to the internet . . .
Our youth have so many different problems, we sugar coat it by giving them labels - oh, and the US literacy rate, IIRC, is below Korea's.
nice to see korea is starting dowing stuff :)