• South Korean Boot Camps For Video Game-Addicted Teens
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[quote]In South Korea, kids who miss school, become addicted to video games or join gangs will end up in a specialized military training camps for some discipline and education. In these camps, the teens are trained military-style with standard soldier routines complete with army uniforms under extreme conditions. This training program is aimed to make the young soldiers stronger and more responsible. During the course, the trainees are not allowed to get any form of dependence from parents. They are on their own. Inmates are pushed over assault courses and learn to ride horses, as well as being given therapy workshops on more creative pursuits. During the sessions, participants cannot use a computer and are allowed only one hour of mobile phone use a day to prevent them playing games via their handsets. Enrolled in the Ansan training course, Kang Han-Sol, a 15-year-old boy said “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”. One of the training instructors added: “Nowadays, the children are selfish and really dependent to parents. They even become violent and disrespect the older. Moreover they easily quit whenever encountering problems. It can not be accepted in our country. For that reason, the parents would like to send their children to the military training course to help them to be better and win themselves”.[/quote][URL="http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/7917966-photos-unbelievable-military-training-program-for-spoil-children-in-korea/content/63980586-video-us-military-officials-train-afghan-forces-duration-1-53"]Source.[/URL] why let bullies pick on your children when you can hire professional ex-military personnel to do it for you
99% of them in for Starcraft 2. The one who isn't will tell stories.
Sounds fun to me honestly, riding horses and shit.
Didn't some kid get killed from abuse in one of these camps
[QUOTE]a specialized military training camps[/QUOTE] :eng101: One freaking Sentence in, and grammar issues already.
[QUOTE=ratman_122;27513206]Sounds fun to me honestly, riding horses and shit.[/QUOTE] There was another article on Gamepolitics, they make the kids go outside in the snow without shirts and shit
there are photos in the news article if you bothered to click it
[QUOTE=The Great Ghast;27513190]99% of them in for Starcraft 2. The one who isn't will tell stories.[/QUOTE] World of Warcraft.
Thanks Blizzard, you've created a generation of ultra disciplined South Korean nerds.
[img]http://img2.allvoices.com/thumbs/event/609/480/70859957-military-training.jpg[/img] what does this have to do with video games
What kind of soldier winds up half naked in snow :raise: also, the kid on the left looks too into it.
I saw something similar to this on some episode of Frontline last year. If I find it I'll post it here.
They are preparing for North Korea.
In a months time NK will throw a grenade over the border to scare the new recruits and show off their military might. They would throw over 2 but that would be going over the annual grenade production of NK.
[QUOTE=Heidenreich;27513500][img_thumb]http://img2.allvoices.com/thumbs/event/609/480/70859957-military-training.jpg[/img_thumb] what does this have to do with video games[/QUOTE] Hey look, they're not obese.
Featuring drill instructors from Best Korea. What you call "violation of human rights" in South Korea is called "extremely good treatment" in Best Korea. [editline]18th January 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Heidenreich;27513500][img_thumb]http://img2.allvoices.com/thumbs/event/609/480/70859957-military-training.jpg[/img_thumb] what does this have to do with video games[/QUOTE] Why the fuck is the guy on the far left rubbing his chest with it.
uh i don't know why don't you go ask them??
[QUOTE=Zeke129;27513280]There was another article on Gamepolitics, they make the kids go outside in the snow without shirts and shit[/QUOTE] The South Korean special forces do this, but I see no reason to make kids who play too much Starcraft do what the special forces do.
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;27514250]Featuring drill instructors from Best Korea. What you call "violation of human rights" in South Korea is called "extremely good treatment" in Best Korea. [editline]18th January 2011[/editline] Why the fuck is the guy on the far left rubbing his chest with it.[/QUOTE] Because doing by so get you powers of great leader and rise to help prosper for good of all of best of Korea.
[QUOTE=Araknid;27513687]They are preparing for North Korea.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;27514295]Because doing by so get you powers of great leader and rise to help prosper for good of all of best of Korea.[/QUOTE] Thus sayeth Dear Leader, amen! :patriot:
[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;27514250]Why the fuck is the guy on the far left rubbing his chest with it.[/QUOTE] Because that's what they're forcing these kids to do
that's me on the far left, i love rubbing snow on my nips in the winter, feels so good.
[QUOTE=BeardyDuck;27514638]that's me on the far left, i love rubbing snow on my nips in the winter, feels so good.[/QUOTE] You can do it year round if you have icecubes.
Sign me up
Yay conscription.
Compulsory military service is going to catch up to them anyways. I have a bunch of Korean friends in my high school and one of my friend's dad is threatening him to send him back to South Korea to join the military because he wasn't born in the U.S. That and he smokes like a pack a day and does some stupid shit.
And since when did american soccer moms move in on south korea?
They will return as super elite gamers.
[QUOTE=PrusseluskenV2;27516471]That's not really a problem if it's for a short time and if it's not -30[/QUOTE] Neither was that mom throwing her kid in a cold shower as punishment but everyone flipped a shit over that, and rightly so.
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