week 13

1. Jung-Kwan Lim

2. game addict

3. On these days, there are many computer games and many of them are very interesting. So if people who play computer games do not control themselves in playing games, they can be addict. But the important thing is when they are addicted then they cannot recognize what is reality and what is game. The addicted think that if people are dead, it's not serious problem because they revive after few second like a game. So there are many case of murders that youth did. It is serious problem. So government made addict clinics cure addict. But number of clinic are insufficient. So we must make many clinic and cure the addicted.

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5. A middle-school teen strangled his mother to death for forbidding him to play computer games and then committed suicide. A while ago, a game addict in his 20s killed his mother with a knife. Another compulsive game player in his 30s died after playing games nonstop for five days without a decent meal.

A runaway couple was arrested five months after they allowed their three-month-old infant to starve to death while they played online games. The couple sometimes went on with game-playing for 12 hours and ignored their crying baby. When they finally pulled themselves away from playing, they fed her spoiled milk. The couple had met on the Internet. All these monstrous crimes took place this year.

Internet or game addiction is not just a misguided indulgence or amusement. It can lead to grave social illnesses and problems. Recent medical studies discovered that Internet addiction can led to mental disorders and a lack of constraint, numbing physical senses as much as overdosing on drugs and alcohol. Teenagers are particularly vulnerable to external arousal and excited feelings resulting from violent Internet games.

Addictions developed at a young age can lead to serious repercussions. Obsessive computer use can take a toll on the body and the mind, robbing it of valuable experiences and opportunities in social and character building and education. The development of a mature and confident member of society can be at risk.

A recent survey showed about 1 million, or 14.3 percent of the country’s teen population, had symptoms of Internet addiction, more than double the 6.3 percent addiction rate among those in their 20s and 30s. What’s more worrisome is that those at risk are growing and becoming younger every year.

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7. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2928614