Name: Inside Korea's Gaming Rehab Clinic: eSPORTS (Part 2/5)
Uploaded: 2018-05-06T10:36:40.000Z
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I played a lot of computer games, I played
a lot o strategy games,

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and I thought that I was really good at
those games.

But I was annoyed that being good at those
games didn't make me cool,

it didn't make girls like me, whereas
being good at a physical sport

like football, girls would like me for
that.

Well in the Western countries that I grew
up in, England and America,

eSports never kind of rose to the same
level of a sport.

Luckily, for those of us who are past our
competitive gaming prime,

there are plenty of other gigs available
in the eSports industry.

Equally as famous is the players
themselves,

are the professional commentators known as
shoutcasters.

Their energetic, play by play analysis is
one of the biggest draws for fans.

Snuck around the side, teleported into the
base.

And then he's on the nexus and I'm like,
oh, oh this is happening.

He's a completely different type of
player.

We've got the consistent players, and
we've got the clutch players.

That's going to be some big damage, oh my
God,

You can see the crowd is even stunned on
that one.

To find out what it takes to become a
shoutcaster, I went for

One of the forerunning online eSport
stations in Seoul.

The amount of people watching this right
now is just insane.

The, the screen is just scrolling through
100s and 100s of messages,

And look forward to our documentary about
eSports where you're all featured and

all of you are very mature comments on my
sexuality.

We're gonna do a live stream of a League
of Legends game and

I don't really know much about the game
but.

Hopefully I'll be able to learn as we go.

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I mean, I had no question that they were
going to win from the beginning.

They put 110% in and it's great to see
them win.

In addition to broadcasting, NiceGame TV
also train up and coming talent.

who had just been scouted by a
professional team.

How many hours do you put in per day, or,
or per week?

Do you have a plan if it doesn't work out
in gaming?

So you've just left the NiceGame TV
studios,

where we met some of the world's future
eSports stars.

They have this almost robotic dedication
to the game, where they're playing 14 or

I can only imagine what effect that must
have on a young person's mind and life.

Internet addiction is said to effect 2
million South Koreans, and

In 2011, the Korean Congress passed a law
known as the Cinderella Act,

putting Internet addiction in the same
category as drugs and alcohol, and

preventing children under the age of 16
from playing online games after midnight.

By making them use their national identity
numbers, children's online accounts

now automatically shut down when the clock
strikes 12.

This Cinderella Act created an uproar in
the gaming community.

He found political representation in a
gaming congressman named Byung Jun Hun.

Spearheading the campaign, the congressman
dressed up in League of Legends cosplay,

As head of the Korean e-Sports
Association, he was also cleverly enticing

the votes of Korea's rapidly expanding
gamer demographic.

a quarter of those diagnosed with internet
addiction will end up being

hospitalized in a government sponsored
internet rehab center.

I'm in the waiting room, I'm here to meet
a guy called Dr. Lee Jae-Won.

We've heard that he has some pretty
unorthodox methods of treating people with

We've heard something about brain scans
with electrodes,

virtual reality therapy, and some kind of
magnetic brain pulse.

I don't know anything about
neuropsychiatry and

I certainly don't know anything about
brain pulse therapy.

So, I'm especially curious to find out how
those methods can help cure some one who

What are the types of people who suffer
from internet addiction?

How much of this is a result of
specifically online gaming?

how terrifying this would be if my parents
had forced me to be here,

and a doctor was putting electrodes on my
head.

Woah.
In 2005, a young South Korean man dropped

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