Korean Women's Department compromise game anti-addiction mechanism applies only to online games

April 1 News, the Korean government to protect the physical and mental health of adolescents, in the game to prevent addiction to the night shutdown policy, the latest news yesterday.　　The South Korean Ministry of Women and Family advocates that the system should be used in all games with online functions, including mobile phones and stand-alone machines, as well as the two opposing views of the Korean Ministry of Cultural and Sports Tourism limited to computer network games, which have been finalized by the two sides in the final consultation. March 31, South Korea's first Minister of Cultural and Sports tourism, Min, said at a press conference, "the Ministry of Cultural and Sports tourism on the scope of the implementation of the night clearance mechanism has been consulted with the Ministry of Women's family, and the two sides agreed on the views." At present, in addition to computer network games, mobile games and other gaming areas will be in the next 2 years, the impact of game addiction evaluation, then decide whether to be included in the limit. "Korea's night shutdown policy will be in the computer games in the implementation of South Korea culture and Sports Tourism Department of the first Under Secretary Min Min's speech, this means that although the shutdown policy is limited to computer network games, but 2 years of back-trip, stand-alone and other games with online functions if there is a greater negative impact (game addiction, etc.),　　Will remain the object of implementation of the policy. At the same time as the Korean Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Ministry of Women's family diverging, consultations between each other, including the terms of the game industry revitalization of the Law and Juvenile Protection law will also be submitted to the April interim Congress to explore, and the possibility of the adoption of Korean media is extremely likely.　　If the two bills were passed by the Provisional Congress in April, they could begin in October this year. The night shutdown policy was introduced by the Korean government in April 2010 to prevent youngsters from indulging in the game by using time limits.　　This policy will be first applied to "Adventure Island", "Rocky" and other well-known games in South Korea, will gradually expand to a variety of games. At the night Shutdown Policy seminar held in South Korea's parliament in February this year, young citizens groups published their survey results. Data show that 83.6% of teens think the policy is ineffective.