South Korea is the most wired country on the planet, a country where it’s entirely unremarkable for elementary school students to carry smartphones, where the cell network is so good that people livestream TV on the subway. The flip side: South Korea is grappling with a growing number of digital natives who don’t know how to live an analog life.
“The government has been promoting I.T. and these kinds of devices, so the government helped create this problem,” said Shim Yong-chool, the director of the National Center for Youth Internet Addiction Treatment camp at a converted school near Muju, in the center of the country. “Now, the government’s trying to help solve it.”
“The government has been promoting I.T. and these kinds of devices, so the government helped create this problem,” said Shim Yong-chool, the director of the National Center for Youth Internet Addiction Treatment camp at a converted school near Muju, in the center of the country. “Now, the government’s trying to help solve it.”