Photos From Inside A Korean Anti-Gaming Camp

Noooo bueno si me hubieran puesto a hacer ejercicio como estos niños, no estaría así de gordo y además los dedos no me dolerian como ahorita pior tanto jugar jajajajajaja


Photos From Inside A Korean Anti-Gaming Camp: "

Over in Korea, they are not playing when it comes to "curing" kids of gaming addiction. Website All Voices has posted a set of 15 photos reportedly taken inside a youth camp in South Korea. The pictures detail the military-style training kids who miss school, join gangs or become addicted to video games are subjected to.

Honestly, it doesn't sound far from American "boot-camp" style programs -- teens are put through soldier's disciplinary routines, complete with extreme conditions and battle-fatigues. Inmates are pushed over assault courses and learn to ride horses, but are also given therapy workshops. The difference, in my eyes, is American boot camps are aimed at really bad kids, not kids who spend too much time playing WoW.

"My mom forced me to take this course because I have played video games too much. I hope this course would better me, so I could quit playing and give more focus on studying," Kang Han-Sol, a 15-year-old inmate said of the camp.

I wasn't much of a discipline-problem as a kid, although the threat of being sent to a military school worked on me, mainly because it happened to a semi-juvenile delinquent who lived down the street from me. He went to a military academy for a couple years, and genuinely stayed out of trouble thereafter. (This is probably an anomaly. He was actually a pretty nice kid; he just liked staying out late and smoking pot.) But on the other hand, the pictures on All Voices are heartbreaking. It's one thing to approve of hard discipline for teens, but looking at the pictures, it's hard to not think that those kids are being horribly mis-treated, maybe abused. I can't imagine what my kid would have to do to cause me to send him to a place like that.

By the way, this is South Korea. In North Korea, they don't have problems with people gaming too much because the electricity doesn't work a lot, and the people who live there wouldn't dare.

How about you guys? Anyone sent to boot-camp out there? Do you know anyone who has been? How did it work out?

Source: All Voices

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