ARE YOU HOOKED?

I think most of us have known someone who has become "addicted" to being on the Internet, whether playing games or chatting or something else.

But I guess there is "addicted" and there is "ADDICTED."

Measure your understanding of addiction against this report from Korea as noted in a recent newspaper:

If Korea has a national obsession, it seems to be online gaming. Some people play games for months, just briefly going home for a change of clothing, taking care of all their eating and sleeping at the internet cafe. In fact, recently a 28-year old fellow died after nearly 50 straight hours of playing online computer games. He collapsed while gaming and died three hours later.

But that wasn't the first death noted. The first was in 2002 when a man died in Kwangju after 86 hours of marathon gaming.

A Seoul psychiatrist stated, "Such an addiction upsets the foundation of your life."

DUH!