Mobile Game Regulation in South Korea: A Case Study of the Shutdown Law

Sang, Yoonmo; Park, Sora; Seo, Hogeun

doi:10.1007/978-94-024-0826-3_4

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“…The Cinderella Act is a youth protection law, prohibiting youth under the age of 16 years from playing online games from midnight to 6:00 a.m. The system forcibly disconnects the online connection at 12:00 a.m. [ 38 ]. In South Korea, the law was enacted to counter suicides and Internet crimes, with an estimated one million “netgeeks” due to IGD.…”

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Current Status of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) in Japan: New Lifestyle-Related Disease in Children and Adolescents

Imataka

Sakuta

Maehashi

et al. 2022

JCM

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The World Health Organization recognizes Internet gaming disorder (IGD) as a disorder that causes problems in daily life as a result of excessive interest in online games. The causes of IGD have become more apparent in recent years. Because of prolonged exposure to games, the mechanisms controlling the reward system, such as the prefrontal cortex, limbic system, and amygdala of the cerebrum, do not function properly in IGD. This mechanism is similar to that of various behavioral addictions, such as gambling addiction. IGD is particularly risky in children and adolescents because it easily causes brain dysfunction, especially in the developing brain. IGD should be regarded as a new lifestyle-related disease in younger individuals, and lifestyle modifications, including counseling and family therapy, are critical for its management.

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Current Status of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) in Japan: New Lifestyle-Related Disease in Children and Adolescents

Imataka

Sakuta

Maehashi

et al. 2022

JCM

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“…In 2011, the Vietnamese government banned online gaming between 22:00 and 08:00. In South Korea, the recently repealed 'Cinderella law' prohibited online game companies from providing services to individuals aged under 16 between midnight and early morning for the decade spanning to 2021 [39][40][41][42] .…”

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No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry

Zendle,

Flick,

Petrovskaya

et al. 2023

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Governments around the world are considering regulatory measures to reduce young people’s time spent on digital devices, particularly video games. This raises the question of whether proposed regulatory measures would be effective. Since the early 2000s, the Chinese government has been enacting regulations to directly restrict young people’s playtime. In November 2019, it limited players aged under 18 to 1.5 hours of daily playtime and 3 hours on public holidays. Using telemetry data on over seven billion hours of playtime provided by a stakeholder from the video games industry, we found no credible evidence for overall reduction in the prevalence of heavy playtime following the implementation of regulations: individual accounts became 1.14 times more likely to play heavily in any given week (95% confidence interval 1.139–1.141). This falls below our preregistered smallest effect size of interest (2.0) and thus is not interpreted as a practically meaningful increase. Results remain robust across a variety of sensitivity analyses, including an analysis of more recent (2021) adjustments to playtime regulation. This casts doubt on the effectiveness of such state-controlled playtime mandates.

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Problematic Internet Use, Nomophobia, and Social Media Addiction

Udayanga

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems

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Mobile Game Regulation in South Korea: A Case Study of the Shutdown Law

Cited by 7 publications

References 20 publications

Current Status of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) in Japan: New Lifestyle-Related Disease in Children and Adolescents

Current Status of Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) in Japan: New Lifestyle-Related Disease in Children and Adolescents

No evidence that Chinese playtime mandates reduced heavy gaming in one segment of the video games industry

Problematic Internet Use, Nomophobia, and Social Media Addiction

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