A proposal is on the table which could limit minors from being online for more than three hours consecutively.
As a nation, South Korea is almost the go-to country when talking about the issue of gaming addiction, particularly when it comes to online PC titles. As this Time piece points out, if you're a hot enough online gamer in a title like Starcraft, there's an opportunity there for celebrity and modest wealth. There was even a pretty huge cheating scandal a couple of years back with an unlikely nexus of professional gaming and organized crime.
All of this is the long way of saying online gaming is kind of big deal South Korea. Now, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology is considering a proposal which would limit minors' access to online games to no more than three hours a day according to this Gamasutra piece. If the policy were enacted, it would join the six-hour evening block where minors are restricted from using their registered profiles online to game. The new regulation would ban underage players' accounts if they were logged more than the prescribed time, although there's no detail about how much of a cooling-off period these players would be required to take before jumping online again.
Again, this policy is simply up for consideration at this time, and we'll bring you news when or if it is actually enacted.
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