[Antel0pe]

As a Korean child, game addiction in Korea is a huge thing. There was a news report about a kid committing suicide because his parents didn't come home til 3am in the morning because they took night shifts and day shifts. The parents would also work during the weekend.
Also the kid was a loner, he had no friends and he wasn't good at studying, which means the teacher wouldn't help him or protect him from bullies. And what happened everyday is that a bully, would beat him up and tell him to level up his MMORPG account because the bullied kid had much more free time and no parents to stop him. And this happened over a period of time. Soon enough, he couldn't keep up with homework and training the MMORPG account, that he did his homework more and couldn't train the game account anymore. So then the bully came into his house after school, tied him to a piano and beat the crap out of him.
It wasn't the victim who was a game addict, it was the bully. The bullied child, who was pissed at everything related to life, just because his parents were often too tired after work and couldn't care for him enough, and the teachers in Korea only favor smart kids and he was bullied because he seemed vulnerable, hung himself.
Oh and the kids were in secondary school, so age 11-15
My dad reads these kind of stories everyday on the Korean news websites and often punishes me if I game too much. Hell, these articles come up on the news on a Korean channel in Singapore.

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breadfan:

That's bullying, not game addiction