14 DAY TRIAL // The Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology in South Korea has announced that it plans to introduce a new set of limitations to the gaming time of minors via new bill.
The underlying concept is called the “Cooling Off System” and will mean that those under the age of 18 would be logged out of any sort of online game experience after playing for two hours.
Gamers can log back in after 10 minutes, but their overall gaming time for the day will be limited to four hours.
The bill also proposes that minors get a ban from all online game betas, regardless of their rating.
Companies need to enforce these rules and those who do not do so will have to pay fines of up to 24,000 dollars (18,126 Euro) and could also face up to three years in jail.
The Ministry is also thinking about introducing a new 1 percent tax on online games, which will be used to fund for treatment of addiction and to prevent video game related school violence.