Monday, October 10, 2005

Can’t stop playing video games

Jun Mung-gyu remembers the throbbing pain in his head and shoulder aches from spending as many as 15 hours a day hunched over a computer keyboard battling his online foes. For others, <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/fun.games/10/07/korea.onlinegameaddic.ap/index.html">the addiction has become all-consuming,</A> raising concerns about the health of the millions of gamers in the world's most wired country. The habit has even been deadly: In August, a 28-year-old man died after nearly 50 straight hours of playing online computer games.

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