Look At This South Korean Boot Camp For Game Addicted Teens

I'll try my hardest not to make a racist joke here, I really will.

I'm pretty sure that that is child endangerment and abuse.

Fucking South Korea. And we're their allies? I say we switch sides to the North, they can't be any worse.

Actually, Hegs, I suppose they're not worse.

They don't have "Video Game Detention Camps" they just don't have video games, because the electricity is very spotty at best. Plus, if you became addicted to them, you'd just be shot.

i love how everyone is >O<! Of course, everyone knows that laying down on ice helps you study. OBVIOUSLY!!

Fun!

I don't see it as too bad. There are some programs like that here in the States, and military training is already a mandatory thing in South Korea.

CoD players go to boot camp.

Sc2 players go to GSL.

What's funny is that the other sites showing pictures taken, a lot of the kids are smiling and laughing. It's cool to see how quick people jump to conclusions and mount their high horses when they really don't know much about what actually happens in these things. I'm sure they're not solely bathing in snow for allotted periods of time. And as a billion other people mentioned on other sites, it's nothing worse than sending your already failing kids to military school where they eventually get to play Call of Duty for real.

We don't know the exact circumstances of these parents' plights and how bad the gaming addiction of their children are. You see some pictures of kids in the snow yelling, and you instantly think torture and inhumane things. These kids will learn to socialize, potentially get in shape, think about education more, and eventually reduce gaming habits. When kids start dying or become hospitalized from this thing, I'll start asking moral questions.

Uhhh no comment but arent gamers consister popluar in korea?

What the hell? They are just video games, cool your jets parents.

i think they are sending a bigger message here Koreans think Call of Duty sucks

Uh...wow..So what do they have to do exactly at this..camp?

Calm the hell down people, this is for kids who are addicted to games like some people are addicted to drugs or alcohol. As long as they're not ruining their lives with it (i.e. missing school or work, wasting all their money, neglecting their social lives), then gaming is still as socially acceptable over there as it is over here.

You think this community would understand that Grimrepaer19? :P

I really think the parents should try disciplining and teaching their children better instead of just sending them away to some camp to do it for them. That why it helps both the parents and children.

I agree with Reaper it's not like they are being tortured. I've seen a documentary on this Part of the world and electronics boom they are having over there.

Thats not sand on their faces.. thats for sure!

Man that generation of Korea is gonna be intimidating.

I can understand why S.Koreans would need a boot camp to kick the MMO addiction. They be CRAZY at them.

There also might be an underlying motive, since all S.Koreans are required to do Military service when they're older, they prob don't want over-sized nerds in the army.

Asian countries usually are always about strict fricken mind and physical control. Yes the cram school makes you an amazing genius but then you will have intense fetishes for 12 year old girls and their used panties (still remember the Tom Green Subway Monkey Tour where he found out where in Tokyo old men buy used girl panties, heck they even have them in vending machines).

I couldn't help but notice that the kid they got the quote from is named Han-Sol. I'm sure Chewy could stop HIS addiction.

I was seriously like "That's a nice white beach, what is the problem?" when I saw the first picture. Then I was like "What the hell?! Is that snow?" when I saw the second picture. Then I looked at the first picture again and was like "Holy balls!"

If the child refuses to go, it doesn't matter what reasoning you give. It's technically an infringement of freedom. Now, if the child agrees to go, then let them. I just know I would never go because my parents say I should.

You should all look up the concept of libertarianism. You have no idea how much indoctrination you've been through at these "schools." If a kid chooses to play games all day and become insane, is that not his/her right to do so? As long as they aren't bother you, why force them to go through something? Does it make you feel powerful or righteous because you think the meaning of life is to be "a member of society?"

Strange how South Korea is a society where gaming has been adopted not only as something of leisure, but a professional sport, yet they have these clinics that completely contradict that.
Just seems to me that they're not treating the issue at the source. Rather than punish the kids like this, why not educate them at a younger age as to the dangerousness (dangerousness - Is that even a word?) of that particular lifestyle?

I'm sure they do but again some of you are missing the point, this is only a camp for the people who have very extreme cases of being addicted to games and neglect all the other aspects of their life. That's like saying why do we have Rehab clinics and that we should just educate people about alcohol and drugs more.

Dear god...its almost as insane as THAT KIDS HAT!!!

Dirty thoughts came to mind as their mouths are wide open and they kids are spreading there legs practically.

Yep.

that guy standing out in the first pic looks like kevjumba XD

You know, I'd say that my brother would benefit from going to one of these. He screams when dad pulls him away from the computer, it's pretty bad.