On February 17, 2010, a young Korean man was arrested for KILLING his mother because she nagged him to stop playing Internet games. Recently, Korea declared that Internet Addiction is the nation’s number one health concern. Stories that once would seem completely strange and rare are becoming routine — a man collapses from exhaustion after playing a video game almost non-stop for 5 days. He later dies in the hospital. More frequently, teachers describe children who seem to be blurring the line between reality and the computer games that they are playing on a daily basis. Another recent news story in the US described a mother calling the police to come to her home when she failed to convince her son to stop playing an Internet game and get to bed after endless hours online. Is the world going insane?



