Every night across the globe, kids log into Xbox Live and game online. They should be studying or sleeping, but theyāre gaming. Except in South Korea.
Last year, South Korea enacted a āShutdown Lawā designed to block online gaming for a nightly six-hour block. It was apparently created with PC gaming in mind, hoping to ensure Korean youth get six hours of sleep each night by banning online gaming between midnight and 6am.
Youth under sixteen years old are banned from gaming online during this nightly block.
While online PC gaming, which is huge in South Korea, might have been the initial target, the Shutdown Law impacted console gaming, too. In fall 2011, Sony banned players under the age of sixteen from making new PSN accounts as well as prohibited them from logging into the PSN.
https://lastchance.cc/psn-shutting-down-at-night-for-young-korean-players-5859594%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Due to the difficulty of monitoring, Microsoft was actually considering shutting down Xbox Live for all South Korean Live members during that block. Today, Microsoft revealed that it was shutting Live down during the nightly block for only those under sixteen years of age. Over sixteen years-old players will not be affected.
And like that, the South Korean government does something that Korean parents should be doing: telling kids to go to bed.
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