The Introduction

  Have you ever heard about the accident caused by adolescent's game addiction in Korea? Last 3.2011, one high school students who had trouble with his parents because of internet game committed suicide when he had a high school entrance ceremony. This is just one of many examples. In Korea, it is very serious problem that every year the rate of adolescent's game addiction and the accidents caused by adolescents who are addicted to game. According to Wee Center research, 57% korean teenagers do internet game while other countries like taiwan and singapore have 18.1% and 4% of students who do internet game. Thus the government thought they have to prevent game addiction of those adolescents by regulating them from doing computer game at night, and made a law called 'shutdown law'. However, this law makes a lot of arguments. Some people say it is good and others say it just worse the situation, and I think it is not good way to prevent teenagers from game addiction for those reasons.