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South Korean Gamers
Julian Pettifer reports on the extraordinary popularity of online games in South Korea and the social problems they can cause.
Julian Pettifer explores South Korea's cutting edge cyber culture. He discovers that e-athletes or computer gamers are treated like rock stars and earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. but the dark side of this digital craze is a pathological addiction. Treatment centres have opened all over the country to help young people who cannot tear themselves away from the computer screens.
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