Report: Korean college student dies after 12 hours playing "online shooting game"

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Report: Korean college student dies after 12 hours playing "online shooting game"

Posted Dec 30th 2010 6:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Culture, FPS

South Korea is known in the gaming industry for its massive amount of PC internet parlors where PC gamers tend to spend hours of their time playing. Now a report from the Korean Times web site states that a college student from the country's city of Ulsan has died this week after a 12 hour marathon playing an "online shooting game" (the game itself is not named).

The report is sketchy but states that the 19 year old student went to an internet parlor (known in Korea as a "PC bang") to start playing at 2 am on Monday. He took a brief break to go home to eat at 10:30 am before returning to the parlor to play some more. On Monday afternoon the student "suddenly fell to the ground". He was then taken to the hospital where the report states that the student, who is named only as Moon in the story, was declared dead upon arrival. There is still no word on what exactly caused his death.

[Via Kotaku]

Tags: korean-pc-game-shooter-death, pc-bang, pc-internet-parlour, pc-shooting-game, South-Korea

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

It's odd that this is even a story. Anyone who has been to a lan party has probably played up to 12 hours, and I dont hear about gamers dropping like flies everywhere. I'm guessing this kid had some sort of medical condition.Posted at 7:26PM on Jan 1st 2011 by Solice

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Can you Just stop the spammers from posting here .
Posted at 3:30PM on Dec 31st 2010 by Salem

No disrespect to the guy, but I have to wonder why every time we hear about a gamer dying, it's a Korean.

I have played games for more than 12 hours, and other people I know have played games for over 12 hours. Are there some kind of stimuli in these gaming cafes that are just too much to handle for long periods of time? And it always seems like it's in a gaming cafe.

Is there something in Korean culture which creates dangerous situations for the body sitting and being mostly idle for some period of time? Are these guys just overhyped on caffeine and other (legal) drugs to keep going? Are they just poor examples of people treating themselves so poorly they were destined to die of a heart attack anyway, and they just happened to be playing a game when it happened?

And Salem, I agree. The spam is annoying, and it seems like the editors here don't care. They usually don't remove spam. I have seen articles months old with spam still on them. And there is no report spam button anyway for us to report them.Posted at 8:37PM on Jan 5th 2011 by Drakkenfyre