I take issue with 'afterschool activities' moreso. I've never thought it was a positive thing to chuck kids into X amount of post-school hours doing things they don't care about. You're wasting their life imo :/ (unless it's things they enjoy and can be passionate about) And this is something I've seen especially amongst asian parents. (and to back up my statements: http://www.stanford.edu/~pgbovine/asian-parents.htm)
Personally, all of my free time as a kid has allowed me to explore computers and now I have a comp-sci degree and am onto a good career...
I agree this law is ridiculous; it should be up to the parents. It feels almost like the government is trying to parent their kids lol.
I think the point most of us find so repulsive is the apparent limitation of freedom. Everyone who lives in a democracy has pretty much been taught freedom is like the holy grail, you don't mess with it, in any way. There is, however, a philosophical issue here.
Freedom exists by the grace of restrictions.
If you think about it, you're "free", because others aren't "allowed" to take your freedoms away. That's a direct limitation on their freedom. We're free, as much as the gouvernment allows us to. And without this, there would be anarchy.
Therefore, we're free to the degree that our norms and values allow us. Their norms and values are different, therefore their amount of "freedom" is different aswell. This is why I don't think we should be too quick to judge this. =)
Stupid fucking rule. South Korea is startling to look more like their Northern brothers. Leaves me wondering why they oppose each other so much when they seemingly share so many values.
Wow, how ignorant...
I live in South Korea right now.
Gaming is not a past time here, it is a plague.
I don't know about you sister's students, but I, never see any of my middle school students out late at night. (3 am)
This may depend on how good the school is. Maybe your sister is working at a school with a lower ranking and poorer students.
Poorer students tend to mess around more.
Anyways, South Korea has a "bali bali" lifestyle.
Meaning they live life on the fastlane. They take this fast living to the extreme. They work really hard, they study really hard. They try to meet their friends no matter how little time they have, they eat really spicy food.
Everything they do is based on this "bali bali" ideology. This is one of the reasons they have surged forward as a world economy from being a war-torn country.
Additionally the after-school activities are usually taking part in a Hagwon class. This is basically after school school. Yeah, that's right. After school school. It is a private institution / academy where students go to study the various subjects that they study at school. Some of them stay there really late. (9pm-12am finishing time) Education is paramount in South Korea, and parents push their kids so hard.
I am not surprised your sister's students are doing that. The boys really love gaming, and they are so busy with these Hagwon that they are not able to have some time to relieve their stress.Basically, they live life at such a fast pace, that these kids even consider sacrificing a couple hours of sleep in the morning to be able to game. I guess you could say it keeps them going.
Anyways it is sad that things are this way, but they are.
All I can say my friends, is consider yourself lucky because man if you wanna succeed here you need to live and breath studying.
I hope this helped you understand.
I don't know about you sister's students, but I, never see any of my middle school students out late at night. (3 am)
This may depend on how good the school is. Maybe your sister is working at a school with a lower ranking and poorer students.
Poorer students tend to mess around more.
After re-reading my OP, I made a mistake. The kids are out with their parents at 3am...sorry for that, that's actually a really big difference! Now I'm not sure if they stay out at 3am with their parents on weekdays or weekends...the point is: It's the parents' fault since they are keeping them up this late either way.
Looks like they've changed the Bill a bit: instead of restricting under 16 year olds to play between 12am and 5am, they now restrict your online gaming to 4 hours a day. But when you play for 2 hours you are automatically logged off and you can then play the other 2 hours after 10min of waiting. They call this the "Cooling Off System".
Furthermore, under 18's aren't allowed to participate in any sort of betas, regardless of the game's rating. Companies that fail to enforce this rule can be fined up to $24 000 or 3 years in jail.
So that's the jist of the new Bill. Shame, poor adolescent gamers! Only thing that tickles me is how they're gonna monitor it...
I to am located in Korea. You guys have no idea what it's like here. I have first hand experience of the pros and cons each of our countries' approach present.
First of all, the education system in America is a failure. That also includes lack of parenting. Some examples would be.... letting their kids video games til.... 3am. This is an example of good parenting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgASIJMalgM
Some might luck out and actually some self motivation and do well in life. Don't excuse the fact that you might've realized more potential if your parents clamped down and focused you - even if you didn't like it. If my parents made me take guitar or piano lessons, I'd be thankful for the rest of my life. Yeah, I could start now, but at this point in my life there isn't enough time to fit it in with all my other hobbies.
But, most will wallow close to the bottom of the rat race. An example that helps support this are the speeches Obama gives. One of his first speeches were at a 10th grade level, that's high school, folks. Polls show that most of 'Merica didn't understand it! One of his latest ones had to be dumbed down to an 8th grade level as to not make our population feel so dumb they didn't even understand their very own president.
Now, for SK. They put a ton of funding into public education. There is a lot of pressure in this society to succeed. This has produced a rags to riches success story of a country. SK students will whip the pants off of any of our kids in 'Merica, I know. This is because the parents do care, forcing their kids to study things even if they don't like them, God forbid it might be useful in the future. Kinda like your parents forcing you to eat your veggies, know what I mean? Last I checked our elementary students ranked 2nd in the world with 'Merica (The most "powerful nation in the world!") being....14th was it?
Now, that's only according to standardized tests, if you mix in other aspects like... social skills - that's another story all together. There are quite a few imperfections that arise out of this approach. For example, the boys/men here are so frickin' feminine, and gigantic pussies when it comes to women. Their mothers have taught them "Go to school, get good grades, don't talk to girls, get a good job and you can have any woman you want." Even in an English class in college here, the boys sit away from all the girls. So, you understand the effect this has on social interactions.
Here in Seoul, it's a concrete jungle, not very family friendly like where I come from in Michigan. There is not as much infrastructure here to let kids run amok and... well be kids. The amount of stress these kids have to deal with in unbelievable. But, really if they didn't endure all this, they would likely not do as well in life (financially). Video games are an easy avenue, and parents see this. As far as parenting, I feel there is a missing ingredient because they are so focused mostly on their kids' grades, but I understand.
Now, to this law. It's basically to curb the amount of gaming addiction that is taking over the lives of all these stressed out kids. Korea has the lowest rate of sex cause there are 'role models' like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOREkPq1aVQ
I'm not sure if there's a correlation, but SK has the lowest birth rate in the world. Why is this a problem? Well, think about it. You got a large aging population, and then a much smaller younger population to support them. Younger kids here are treated like..... crème de la crème, and are pretty spoiled I think.
Anyways, this post is all over the place! But, the point is: every country will have introduce an approach to solve their problems, just because it's different or not one you like doesn't mean it's bad.... or good for that matter. You also should understand the kind of environment or situation that a law is introduced into before you make any snap judgments.
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I do not understand why you have brought one country's issue up here, a D3 fansite, far from S.Korea. If you want to make a change for the new law, talk to the government or its law makers, not here.
I to am located in Korea. You guys have no idea what it's like here. I have first hand experience of the pros and cons each of our countries' approach present.
First of all, the education system in America is a failure. That also includes lack of parenting. Some examples would be.... letting their kids video games til.... 3am. This is an example of good parenting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgASIJMalgM
Some might luck out and actually some self motivation and do well in life. Don't excuse the fact that you might've realized more potential if your parents clamped down and focused you - even if you didn't like it. If my parents made me take guitar or piano lessons, I'd be thankful for the rest of my life. Yeah, I could start now, but at this point in my life there isn't enough time to fit it in with all my other hobbies.
But, most will wallow close to the bottom of the rat race. An example that helps support this are the speeches Obama gives. One of his first speeches were at a 10th grade level, that's high school, folks. Polls show that most of 'Merica didn't understand it! One of his latest ones had to be dumbed down to an 8th grade level as to not make our population feel so dumb they didn't even understand their very own president.
Now, for SK. They put a ton of funding into public education. There is a lot of pressure in this society to succeed. This has produced a rags to riches success story of a country. SK students will whip the pants off of any of our kids in 'Merica, I know. This is because the parents do care, forcing their kids to study things even if they don't like them, God forbid it might be useful in the future. Kinda like your parents forcing you to eat your veggies, know what I mean? Last I checked our elementary students ranked 2nd in the world with 'Merica (The most "powerful nation in the world!") being....14th was it?
Now, that's only according to standardized tests, if you mix in other aspects like... social skills - that's another story all together. There are quite a few imperfections that arise out of this approach. For example, the boys/men here are so frickin' feminine, and gigantic pussies when it comes to women. Their mothers have taught them "Go to school, get good grades, don't talk to girls, get a good job and you can have any woman you want." Even in an English class in college here, the boys sit away from all the girls. So, you understand the effect this has on social interactions.
Here in Seoul, it's a concrete jungle, not very family friendly like where I come from in Michigan. There is not as much infrastructure here to let kids run amok and... well be kids. The amount of stress these kids have to deal with in unbelievable. But, really if they didn't endure all this, they would likely not do as well in life (financially). Video games are an easy avenue, and parents see this. As far as parenting, I feel there is a missing ingredient because they are so focused mostly on their kids' grades, but I understand.
Now, to this law. It's basically to curb the amount of gaming addiction that is taking over the lives of all these stressed out kids. Korea has the lowest rate of sex cause there are 'role models' like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOREkPq1aVQ
I'm not sure if there's a correlation, but SK has the lowest birth rate in the world. Why is this a problem? Well, think about it. You got a large aging population, and then a much smaller younger population to support them. Younger kids here are treated like..... crème de la crème, and are pretty spoiled I think.
Anyways, this post is all over the place! But, the point is: every country will have introduce an approach to solve their problems, just because it's different or not one you like doesn't mean it's bad.... or good for that matter. You also should understand the kind of environment or situation that a law is introduced into before you make any snap judgments.
Haha that vid is funny! But yeah, I agree that that's good parenting. And who said gaming doesn't come in handy in the real world!! The parents must draw the line somewhere and they obviously did. That's probably one reason SK's kids are playing through the night on weekdays when they have school in the morning...the Korean parents don't have the balls to tell their children to go to bed or whatnot.
But this is contradictory to the whole Korean-parents-pushing-their-children-to-do-well-in-school-and-do-what-the-parents-want. They are able to force their children to play piano, violin, to do good in school otherwise they might get punished. Why can't they tell their children to go to bed and not play Wow/Starcraft the whole damn day/night? I'm not sure if the following is a sweeping statement, but as far as I know, Korean parents will say something like: "If you don't do good in school, you will bring shame to the family." And of course, they believe this to such an extent that it take over their lives.
That's why I said this is the parents' fault and it's their responsibility to draw the line about online gaming. Why draw the line on their children's education, but not on online gaming?
As for the difference between the US and SK's educational system. I've posted a few posts somewhere sometime regarding this, but can't remember where ... SK always ended up in at least the top 3 while the US was at the back of the list. It can kinda show...SK "sacrifice" social interaction for education to a degree and strict parents force them to study and do good in school. These tests go to show that it's working...on the education side at least. Whereas in the US, again this might be a sweeping statement, most of the parents are to nonchalant regarding their parenting...they let their children do whatever they want, but where they lack in education, they make up in social interaction.
I know China has that One-Child policy, but I guess most Asian countries know the implication of having to have an overpopulated country. But of course, lack of social interaction skills will also contribute to lack of babies.
Yeah I guess one can't really judge something and the reasoning behind it if you aren't familiar with their customs. But I still think this is fail parenting.
I do not understand why you have brought one country's issue up here, a D3 fansite, far from S.Korea. If you want to make a change for the new law, talk to the government or its law makers, not here.
Well, SK banned the "cash-out" feature from the RMAH from Diablo 3 about a month ago (meaning SKans can't withdraw real money) and the fact that SK is proposing this Bill so that no under 18's will be able to play Diablo 3 for more than 4 hours a day if this Bill passes. The correlation is as follows:
If under 18 SKans can only play 4 hours a day max, it will affect Blizzard themselves...not much at all, but it will. Remember, SK can still sell and stuff on the Gold AH...Therefore: Sell on GAH - people buy it for gold - same people use/sell for cash. Blizz will still make less money cause of this, even if it is small.
Oh and btw, this forum isn't just for Diablo related topics, so stfu.
If under 18 SKans can only play 4 hours a day max, it will affect Blizzard themselves...not much at all, but it will. Remember, SK can still sell and stuff on the Gold AH...Therefore: Sell on GAH - people buy it for gold - same people use/sell for cash. Blizz will still make less money cause of this, even if it is small.
I believe that for nomal students, four hour gameplays a day are still a lot unless they want to become professional gamers later. I think you do not know how smart and clever Korean yound kids are. I am 100% sure that the new law will not affect their playtimes. There are and will be still many bypasses.
Are you really worried about whethr Blizz can make a profit from S.Korea? You sound like a Blizz man. Why do you care so much about Blizz? For me, that is not my concern at all. All I want is a speedy release of D3.
Regarding the banning things, you are wrong. It's more like Blizz in S.Korea was not well-prepared for the rating.
It is sad that south Korea has to do what parents should all ready be doing. There is no way that my kids would be allowed to stay up until 2 am on a school night or even get up at 5 am to play. We limit our kids to 1 hour Monday-Thursday. They can play as much as they want on weekends to a point. We also allow them to earn more playing time. Those of you that do not have kids may not get this but you will one day.
If under 18 SKans can only play 4 hours a day max, it will affect Blizzard themselves...not much at all, but it will. Remember, SK can still sell and stuff on the Gold AH...Therefore: Sell on GAH - people buy it for gold - same people use/sell for cash. Blizz will still make less money cause of this, even if it is small.
I believe that for nomal students, four hour gameplays a day are still a lot unless they want to become professional gamers later. I think you do not know how smart and clever Korean yound kids are. I am 100% sure that the new law will not affect their playtimes. There are and will be still many bypasses.
Are you really worried about whethr Blizz can make a profit from S.Korea? You sound like a Blizz man. Why do you care so much about Blizz? For me, that is not my concern at all. All I want is a speedy release of D3.
No I'm not worried about Blizz making money, I couldn't care less tbh. I was simply pointing out that this has something to do with Diablo after you said:
I do not understand why you have brought one country's issue up here, a D3 fansite, far from S.Korea.
Regarding the banning things, you are wrong. It's more like Blizz in S.Korea was not well-prepared for the rating.
How should Blizz have been more prepared? The banning of the "cash-out" feature has nothing to do with Blizz SK...it's full on the GBR (Game Board Rating) in SK that is the problem, they are anti-gambling and consider the RMAH as "gambling" even though it 100% legal.
Even though the whole RMAH is 100% legal, the GBR wanted more "material" to give a decision. Blizz had to exclude the cash-out feature when they submitted it to the GBR back in Dec for the second time after the GBR took forever to decide the rating/RMAH-issue and wanted more "material" after Blizz's first submission. It's the GBR's fault, not Blizz.
Timeline:
- Blizz submitted D3 and whole RMAH to get a rating from GBR.
- GBR want more "material" to make their decision.
- Instead of giving them more material, Blizz simply removed the "cash-out" feature and submitted that. Blizz knew the GBR is full of shit and was probably tired of waiting for them to make a decision. So by removing the possibility to make cash, Blizz removed the biggest "gambling" aspect of the RMAH.
Timeline:
- Blizz submitted D3 and whole RMAH to get a rating from GBR.
- GBR want more "material" to make their decision.
- Instead of giving them more material, Blizz simply removed the "cash-out" feature and submitted that. Blizz knew the GBR is full of shit and was probably tired of waiting for them to make a decision. So by removing the possibility to make cash, Blizz removed the biggest "gambling" aspect of the RMAH.
This is what really happened.
Blizz submitted D3 and the whole Auction feature. However it failed to demonstarate the RMAH feature in front of GRB, which is necessary to make their decision.
So GRB advise that Blizz demonstrate the RMAH feature at the next meeting as the paper submitted to GRB instead of wanting more meterial.
The final D3 Blizz submitted to GRB seemed not to include the whole Auction feature. That's why D3 was finally passed in S.Korea. We do not know why Blizz did that way.
GRB and game newspapers said this way, but Blizz in S.Korea denied it and kept silent so far.
Search for more news from S.Korea or GRB's Q&A board if you want proof.
Governaments exist to mediate conflicts between individuals, not parenting. Estates can't protect kids from thenself cause it does not have any idea what's best for those kids.
SK education (supported and finantialised by the governament) is a exemple. Kids study like freaking scientists without a oportunity to apply this knowledge (societies don't need a army of scientists - market forces cleary shows that). This is why productivity of labor is completly stuck in SK. Some people points a over investment in education there. It's like China's over investment in capital.
Annoying how the statists picks a holy grails as symbol of development and push that grail down people's throats. SK's education. European's and S. America's welfare. Etc...
I'd blame bad parenting as usual. But whatever, kids will be kids. People can complain when America hands them a few laws on how to act in public, but at least they don't tell you how to act in your own house. I think China handles their country really really well when it comes to law and government handing a population of an enormous size, but Korea? That entire country is a joke. For the better part of a decade, South Korea just plays video games all day and North Korea would just think about making nukes all day. I've had this opinion for more than 5 years.
On an unrelated note, the last time I was in Seoul, the city was god damned freezing. Call me a wuss, but walking around the city in -20 F isn't my idea of fun. I don't know why a foreigner would choose to live there all year round.
I like the Korean people. I have a couple of Korean friends I still keep in touch with from Hawaii, but there are better places to live than Korea.
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Personally, all of my free time as a kid has allowed me to explore computers and now I have a comp-sci degree and am onto a good career...
I agree this law is ridiculous; it should be up to the parents. It feels almost like the government is trying to parent their kids lol.
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In Canada we have a law against texting while driving... we rely on the government to keep idiots alive.
Texting and driving affects other people the same as drinking and driving. Both achieve the same results - potential innocent casualties.
Yes, therefore the laws against driving drunk.
So........ what's your point. Why should Korea have this law ? Will it fix something at all ?
Freedom exists by the grace of restrictions.
If you think about it, you're "free", because others aren't "allowed" to take your freedoms away. That's a direct limitation on their freedom. We're free, as much as the gouvernment allows us to. And without this, there would be anarchy.
Therefore, we're free to the degree that our norms and values allow us. Their norms and values are different, therefore their amount of "freedom" is different aswell. This is why I don't think we should be too quick to judge this. =)
Wow, how ignorant...
I live in South Korea right now.
Gaming is not a past time here, it is a plague.
I don't know about you sister's students, but I, never see any of my middle school students out late at night. (3 am)
This may depend on how good the school is. Maybe your sister is working at a school with a lower ranking and poorer students.
Poorer students tend to mess around more.
Anyways, South Korea has a "bali bali" lifestyle.
Meaning they live life on the fastlane. They take this fast living to the extreme. They work really hard, they study really hard. They try to meet their friends no matter how little time they have, they eat really spicy food.
Everything they do is based on this "bali bali" ideology. This is one of the reasons they have surged forward as a world economy from being a war-torn country.
Additionally the after-school activities are usually taking part in a Hagwon class. This is basically after school school. Yeah, that's right. After school school. It is a private institution / academy where students go to study the various subjects that they study at school. Some of them stay there really late. (9pm-12am finishing time) Education is paramount in South Korea, and parents push their kids so hard.
I am not surprised your sister's students are doing that. The boys really love gaming, and they are so busy with these Hagwon that they are not able to have some time to relieve their stress.Basically, they live life at such a fast pace, that these kids even consider sacrificing a couple hours of sleep in the morning to be able to game. I guess you could say it keeps them going.
Anyways it is sad that things are this way, but they are.
All I can say my friends, is consider yourself lucky because man if you wanna succeed here you need to live and breath studying.
I hope this helped you understand.
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After re-reading my OP, I made a mistake. The kids are out with their parents at 3am...sorry for that, that's actually a really big difference! Now I'm not sure if they stay out at 3am with their parents on weekdays or weekends...the point is: It's the parents' fault since they are keeping them up this late either way.
Haha that's why they pwn the world in Starcraft!
Looks like they've changed the Bill a bit: instead of restricting under 16 year olds to play between 12am and 5am, they now restrict your online gaming to 4 hours a day. But when you play for 2 hours you are automatically logged off and you can then play the other 2 hours after 10min of waiting. They call this the "Cooling Off System".
Furthermore, under 18's aren't allowed to participate in any sort of betas, regardless of the game's rating. Companies that fail to enforce this rule can be fined up to $24 000 or 3 years in jail.
So that's the jist of the new Bill. Shame, poor adolescent gamers! Only thing that tickles me is how they're gonna monitor it...
First of all, the education system in America is a failure. That also includes lack of parenting. Some examples would be.... letting their kids video games til.... 3am. This is an example of good parenting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgASIJMalgM
Some might luck out and actually some self motivation and do well in life. Don't excuse the fact that you might've realized more potential if your parents clamped down and focused you - even if you didn't like it. If my parents made me take guitar or piano lessons, I'd be thankful for the rest of my life. Yeah, I could start now, but at this point in my life there isn't enough time to fit it in with all my other hobbies.
But, most will wallow close to the bottom of the rat race. An example that helps support this are the speeches Obama gives. One of his first speeches were at a 10th grade level, that's high school, folks. Polls show that most of 'Merica didn't understand it! One of his latest ones had to be dumbed down to an 8th grade level as to not make our population feel so dumb they didn't even understand their very own president.
Now, for SK. They put a ton of funding into public education. There is a lot of pressure in this society to succeed. This has produced a rags to riches success story of a country. SK students will whip the pants off of any of our kids in 'Merica, I know. This is because the parents do care, forcing their kids to study things even if they don't like them, God forbid it might be useful in the future. Kinda like your parents forcing you to eat your veggies, know what I mean? Last I checked our elementary students ranked 2nd in the world with 'Merica (The most "powerful nation in the world!") being....14th was it?
Now, that's only according to standardized tests, if you mix in other aspects like... social skills - that's another story all together. There are quite a few imperfections that arise out of this approach. For example, the boys/men here are so frickin' feminine, and gigantic pussies when it comes to women. Their mothers have taught them "Go to school, get good grades, don't talk to girls, get a good job and you can have any woman you want." Even in an English class in college here, the boys sit away from all the girls. So, you understand the effect this has on social interactions.
Here in Seoul, it's a concrete jungle, not very family friendly like where I come from in Michigan. There is not as much infrastructure here to let kids run amok and... well be kids. The amount of stress these kids have to deal with in unbelievable. But, really if they didn't endure all this, they would likely not do as well in life (financially). Video games are an easy avenue, and parents see this. As far as parenting, I feel there is a missing ingredient because they are so focused mostly on their kids' grades, but I understand.
Now, to this law. It's basically to curb the amount of gaming addiction that is taking over the lives of all these stressed out kids. Korea has the lowest rate of sex cause there are 'role models' like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOREkPq1aVQ
I'm not sure if there's a correlation, but SK has the lowest birth rate in the world. Why is this a problem? Well, think about it. You got a large aging population, and then a much smaller younger population to support them. Younger kids here are treated like..... crème de la crème, and are pretty spoiled I think.
Anyways, this post is all over the place! But, the point is: every country will have introduce an approach to solve their problems, just because it's different or not one you like doesn't mean it's bad.... or good for that matter. You also should understand the kind of environment or situation that a law is introduced into before you make any snap judgments.
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Haha that vid is funny! But yeah, I agree that that's good parenting. And who said gaming doesn't come in handy in the real world!! The parents must draw the line somewhere and they obviously did. That's probably one reason SK's kids are playing through the night on weekdays when they have school in the morning...the Korean parents don't have the balls to tell their children to go to bed or whatnot.
But this is contradictory to the whole Korean-parents-pushing-their-children-to-do-well-in-school-and-do-what-the-parents-want. They are able to force their children to play piano, violin, to do good in school otherwise they might get punished. Why can't they tell their children to go to bed and not play Wow/Starcraft the whole damn day/night? I'm not sure if the following is a sweeping statement, but as far as I know, Korean parents will say something like: "If you don't do good in school, you will bring shame to the family." And of course, they believe this to such an extent that it take over their lives.
That's why I said this is the parents' fault and it's their responsibility to draw the line about online gaming. Why draw the line on their children's education, but not on online gaming?
As for the difference between the US and SK's educational system. I've posted a few posts somewhere sometime regarding this, but can't remember where ... SK always ended up in at least the top 3 while the US was at the back of the list. It can kinda show...SK "sacrifice" social interaction for education to a degree and strict parents force them to study and do good in school. These tests go to show that it's working...on the education side at least. Whereas in the US, again this might be a sweeping statement, most of the parents are to nonchalant regarding their parenting...they let their children do whatever they want, but where they lack in education, they make up in social interaction.
I know China has that One-Child policy, but I guess most Asian countries know the implication of having to have an overpopulated country. But of course, lack of social interaction skills will also contribute to lack of babies.
Yeah I guess one can't really judge something and the reasoning behind it if you aren't familiar with their customs. But I still think this is fail parenting.
Well, SK banned the "cash-out" feature from the RMAH from Diablo 3 about a month ago (meaning SKans can't withdraw real money) and the fact that SK is proposing this Bill so that no under 18's will be able to play Diablo 3 for more than 4 hours a day if this Bill passes. The correlation is as follows:
If under 18 SKans can only play 4 hours a day max, it will affect Blizzard themselves...not much at all, but it will. Remember, SK can still sell and stuff on the Gold AH...Therefore: Sell on GAH - people buy it for gold - same people use/sell for cash. Blizz will still make less money cause of this, even if it is small.
Oh and btw, this forum isn't just for Diablo related topics, so stfu.
Are you really worried about whethr Blizz can make a profit from S.Korea? You sound like a Blizz man. Why do you care so much about Blizz? For me, that is not my concern at all. All I want is a speedy release of D3.
Regarding the banning things, you are wrong. It's more like Blizz in S.Korea was not well-prepared for the rating.
No I'm not worried about Blizz making money, I couldn't care less tbh. I was simply pointing out that this has something to do with Diablo after you said:
How should Blizz have been more prepared? The banning of the "cash-out" feature has nothing to do with Blizz SK...it's full on the GBR (Game Board Rating) in SK that is the problem, they are anti-gambling and consider the RMAH as "gambling" even though it 100% legal.
Even though the whole RMAH is 100% legal, the GBR wanted more "material" to give a decision. Blizz had to exclude the cash-out feature when they submitted it to the GBR back in Dec for the second time after the GBR took forever to decide the rating/RMAH-issue and wanted more "material" after Blizz's first submission. It's the GBR's fault, not Blizz.
Timeline:
- Blizz submitted D3 and whole RMAH to get a rating from GBR.
- GBR want more "material" to make their decision.
- Instead of giving them more material, Blizz simply removed the "cash-out" feature and submitted that. Blizz knew the GBR is full of shit and was probably tired of waiting for them to make a decision. So by removing the possibility to make cash, Blizz removed the biggest "gambling" aspect of the RMAH.
Blizz submitted D3 and the whole Auction feature. However it failed to demonstarate the RMAH feature in front of GRB, which is necessary to make their decision.
So GRB advise that Blizz demonstrate the RMAH feature at the next meeting as the paper submitted to GRB instead of wanting more meterial.
The final D3 Blizz submitted to GRB seemed not to include the whole Auction feature. That's why D3 was finally passed in S.Korea. We do not know why Blizz did that way.
GRB and game newspapers said this way, but Blizz in S.Korea denied it and kept silent so far.
Search for more news from S.Korea or GRB's Q&A board if you want proof.
SK education (supported and finantialised by the governament) is a exemple. Kids study like freaking scientists without a oportunity to apply this knowledge (societies don't need a army of scientists - market forces cleary shows that). This is why productivity of labor is completly stuck in SK. Some people points a over investment in education there. It's like China's over investment in capital.
Annoying how the statists picks a holy grails as symbol of development and push that grail down people's throats. SK's education. European's and S. America's welfare. Etc...
On an unrelated note, the last time I was in Seoul, the city was god damned freezing. Call me a wuss, but walking around the city in -20 F isn't my idea of fun. I don't know why a foreigner would choose to live there all year round.
I like the Korean people. I have a couple of Korean friends I still keep in touch with from Hawaii, but there are better places to live than Korea.