Video games are practically the national pastime in South Korea, played by the majority of adults and more than 90% of adolescents. Concerns over the effects of games on mental health have been met with disdain by the $13 billion gaming industry.
” to the 2022 edition of its International Classification of Diseases, which sets global standards for diagnosis.South Korea enjoys ultra-fast broadband and a vibrant internet culture, and internet cafes with powerful high-end computers catering to school-age gamers can be found on many street corners.
“It’ll be a disaster,” said Kim Jung-tae, a professor of game studies at Dongyang University and a veteran game developer who signed onto a task force pledging to fight the disease classification. “The entire ecosystem of the game industry could collapse.” “Alcoholics don’t blame the company that makes the liquor,” said Roh Sung-won, an addiction specialist and professor of psychiatry at Hanyang University Hospital in Seoul. “You don’t stop manufacturing cars because there are automobile accidents.”
Dr. Allen Frances, who chaired the task force that oversaw the production of a past edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the bible of U.S. psychiatry,that recognizing gaming disorder could help some people but also carries the risk of mislabeling “millions of normal recreational gamers.”
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